

In the same month, the Allies also start their campaign in Italy, which will push the Axis back up through Italy. In late 1942 North Africa, the Allies are pushing the Germanys back across Libya, and by May 1943 Germany is out of Africa altogether. By Mid-1942 the Japanese and German advances are generally stopped. Japan soon takes over most of the Pacific and South-East Asia while Germany presses further across North Africa very close to Egypt. Japan soon attacks Malaysia, the Philippines and Burma, and so the Pacific and South-East Asia are also brought into the war. Days later the whole world is brought in. In December 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbour which drags the US into the war. The Commonwealth respond and so commences the North African campaign. In June 1940 the Italians and Germans move across Libya and threaten Egypt. The Siege of Stalingrad begins Germany takes no more ground.

On 22 June 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union (Russia), moves far into the USSR but fails to take Moscow. Weeks later they have also attacked Holland, Belgium and France (over 10 individual countries).īy June 1940 the Allies have been pushed back and retreated over the channel. On 1 September 1939 German's Wehrmacht invades Poland. Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Iraq, Thailand, other more or less aggressive countries Great Britain, USA, China, Soviet Union', Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Yugoslavia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Greece, India, New Zealand, the Philippines, the Union of South Africa, many other countries. It was a war between the 2 military alliances, the Allies and the Axis powers.

World War Two started in 1939 and finished in 1945.
