January 1933- Adolf Hitler and the N.S.D.A.P (Nazi) Party come to power in Germany.
March 1936- German occupation of the Rhineland.
November 1938- Crystal Night in Germany; Jewish businesses viciously attacked by German citizens as well as Nazi stormtroopers.
March 1938- German annexation of Austria.
October 1938- German annexation of Sudetenland.
March 1939- Czechoslovakia given an ultimatum; ultimatum refused; Czechoslovakia invaded and occupied by German forces.
Slovakian puppet state set up by the Nazis in the East.
Summer 1939- Danzig and 'Polish Corridor' threatened by German forces.
August 1939- Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed; U.S.S.R. and Germany plan to invade and partition Poland in half.
September 1939- Poland invaded by Germany from the west, and Soviets from the east.
Britain and British Commonwealth, as well as France, declare war on Germany.
September 1939 to April 1940- Phoney War; Germany ceases westward advance due to unfavorable winter conditions. Allies prepare for war.
April 1940- German forces invade Denmark and Norway. The Phoney War ends.
May 1940- Germany invades neutral Holland and Belgium; pushes into France.
June 1940- France surrenders to German forces; Vichy French puppet state established in the south, lead by Henry Petain.
July 1940- Battle of Britain begins with German bombing of British military targets.
August 1940- German bombing of British military targets does not cease; yet with dwindling RAF numbers, Germany is able to spare enough planes for bi-weekly bombings of London.
RAF defeated by the end of the month; Germany owns the skies.
September 1940- Operation Sea Lion begins; German forces launch across the Channel from Brittany, Le Havre, Antwerp, and Amsterdam, landing in the cities and towns of Plymouth, Southampton, Ipswich, and Norwich, as well as paratrooper attacks launched from Paris, Vichy, Brest, Amiens, and Rotterdam, and landing in Oxford, Bristol, Cardiff, and Leicester, with a large concentration in London.
Churchill and many members of his cabinet flee to Glasgow.
*Initial victory over German forces in first wave during Battle of London.
Germans pushed back in Cardiff; yet eventual victory followed in every other assault, bringing all of southern Britain (from the northern outskirts of London) under Nazi control.
October 1940- German forces are reinforced; begin blitz pushes to the south, reaching Birmingham within 3 weeks.
German forces push until reaching Scottish border; advance ceases temporarily.
German forces begin major spearhead assault towards Glasgow; they encounter heavy defensive resistance.
*OPERATION: VICTORY BOND*
British commandos escort Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the western Scottish shore, where he is to take a steamship to Northern Ireland where he'll be flown to Canada as to form the British Government in Exile; they meet slight resistance from flanking German forces.
Churchill and his cabinet are forced to disguise themselves. The Germans catch wind of the plan.
Churchill and his associates successfully reach the steamship, and begin the short journey to Northern Ireland under heavy naval escort; yet the Luftwaffe finds them and bombing commences.
Most of the naval escort is decimated, and Churchill's steamship itself is sunk, killing several members of his cabinet; Churchill himself and 6 members of his cabinet (all thought to be dead), are rescued by passing Irish fisherman the following morning from their leaking lifeboat.
They are brought to a port near Dublin, where a British military escort arrives on October 31st to escort Churchill to Northern Ireland.
November 1940- German forces seize control of Glasgow; the remainder of the British Parliament surrender unconditionally on behalf of the entire nation.
Nazi occupational districts are established and German forces launch amphibious assault on Northern Ireland, meeting little resistance from British forces which have refused to surrender.
Churchill successfully makes it to Toronto, Ontario, Canada via plane. He is driven to Ottawa to meet with Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon MacKenzie King.
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