World Around Us Week 4

We are going to leave Titanic behind and begin our summer topic – The Second World War.

This week, we want you to get an overview of WW2 and learn what it was about and what happened. These two videos will help explain:

Download these PowerPoints – they will tell you more about WW2:

Your task this week is to design a WW2 timeline. We’d like you to include the following events. We have left off the dates – you will need to do some research to find out exactly when they happened. The PowerPoints will help you, or you can use Google. 

• End of WW1
• Hitler elected Chancellor of Germany
• Germany invades Austria
• Germany invades Poland
• Britain/France declare war on Germany
• Surrender of France
• German invasion of Russia
• Japan attaches USA navel base at Pearl Harbour
• USA declares war on Germany and Japan
• German surrender at Stalingrad, Russia
• Surrender of Italy
• D-Day – allied invasion of France
• Germany surrenders
• Japan surrenders

You can draw out your timeline, or use your computer. Keep it simple, or be as creative as you can - it's up to you. 

We would really like to see your timelines, please email them to us. 

Here are two simple examples that may help. Click on them to make them bigger.