Timeline

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__**1938**__ Gas masks are issued to the public. Anderson shelters disrubuted.

September - Germany invades Poland Cities such as Warsaw were bombed by Germany In 1939. Hitler gave no warning and many died within weeks of invasion. As the Poles weren't prepared, Germany shot thousands. More than 2,000 tanks and 1,000 planes were involved, Warsaw surrended to the Germans on the 28th September.
 * __1939__** -

January-** Food rationing begins on ham, bacon, sugar and butter. The Homefront is created. Italy declares war on France and Britain. Buckingham Palace Bombed.
 * __1940__
 * March-** Meat rationed.
 * April-** Lord Woolton becomes Minister of food.
 * May**- Churchill succeeds Chamberlin as Prime Minister.
 * June**- Italy joins forces with Germany.
 * July 10th**- Battle of Britain begins.
 * September**- Start of the Blitz, London is bombed for 76 consecutive nights.
 * October**- Neville Chamberlin dies.

January-** British and Australlian troups capture Tobruk, Libya.
 * __1941__
 * May**- Last night of London Blitz, Westminiser Abbey and The Tower of London are hit.
 * March**- Syrup, marmalade, treacle and jam are rationed.
 * March**- Bulgaria joins the axis
 * June**- Eggs rationed along with clothes, each person recieves 66 coupons per year.
 * September**- Morrison Shelters are introduced.
 * November**- Milk rationed.
 * December**- Japanese attack Pearl Harbour.

January**- First American soldiers land in Britain.
 * __1942__
 * February**- Soap rationed.
 * February** - The jappanees capture Singapore
 * March -** First prisoners at Auschwitz, Poland are gassed.
 * April**- Clothing coupons reduced to 48 per year.
 * July**- Sweets rationed.
 * October**- Britian defeats Germany at EL Alamein, North Africa.

January-** The German army is defeated at stalingrad. Italy leaves the war, then declares war on Germany.
 * __1943__
 * July 10th**-The allies land in Italy and Sicily.

January**- Series of heavy air raids continue on London. First V-1 bombs fall on Britain. Blackouts end.
 * __1944__
 * June**- D-Day invasion.
 * September**- first V-2 bombs land in Britain.

Hitler commits suicide.
 * __1945__**
 * April**- Roosevelt (American President) dies.
 * May**- VE Day (Victory in Europe) Germany surrender.
 * July**- Clement Attlee become Prime Minister.
 * August**- America drops a Nucular bomb on Hiromshima in Japan.

July 1940 A complete **BAN** of making and selling iced cakes is introduced. Germans blitz overwhelms Holland, France and Belgium.

22nd June Germany fully take over France

1941 Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia. Hitler attacks Russia. Britain and United States declare war on Japan.

1942- Japanese take Singapore. The Japanese captured Singapore from the British, taking some 60,000 prisoners.

March 1946 Bread is now rationed. Febuary 1947 Potatoes start being rationed. July 1954 End of rationing! (Even though it is 9 years after the war finished)