WW2 european theatre

First World War ends with German defeat

Treaty of Versailles signed

Hitlers failed coup (Beer Hall Putsch)

Nazi party elected

Hitler becomes chancellor

Hitler gains Enabling Act

Hitler becomes Führer of Germany

Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing conscription

German troops occupy the Rhineland

Italian forces take Ethiopia

Germans surrender at Stalingrad, first major defeat

Mussolini arrested. Fascist government in Italy falls. New government attempts to negotiate with the Allies

Italy surrenders to the alies

Germans take Rome and reinstate Mussolini

Mussolini re-establishes fascist government

German troops surrender at Aachen, Germany

German forces in Ruhr surrender

Soviet forces reach Berlin

Mussolini is captured and killed by Italian Partisans

Hitler commits suicide

Germany surrenders unconditially

V-E day

Post-war organisation and events (e.g. the capture of top ranking Nazi officers)

"March 15/16 - Nazis take Czechoslovakia. March 28, 1939 - Spanish Civil war ends. May 22, 1939 - Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy. August 23, 1939 - Nazis and Soviets sign Pact. August 25, 1939 - Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty. August 31, 1939 - British fleet mobilizes; Civilian evacuations begin from London. September 1, 1939 - Nazis invade Poland. September 3, 1939 - Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.

This is the war in which there were incredibly high amounts of fighting and skirmishes

Multiple surrenders and retreats and defeats of the german forces