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Nazi Invasion of Poland
This war was in Europe and marked the start of World War 2. Germans invaded Poland from the North, West and South. The forward bases of operation closed the Polish-German border for a more defence to the East. -
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World War II
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Germany invades Denmark
Demark Surrendersf on the day of attack -
Germany attacks Western Europe
This attack lasts from May 10th to June 22nd. Luxembourg is occupied on may 10th; Netherlands surrender on May 14th; and on May 28 Belgium surrenders. -
Germany invades Norway
A month later after Denmark was invaded Norway was. -
Invade of the Soviet Union
(June 11 - November) Germans overrun the Baltic States, joined by the Finns, lay siege to St. Petersburg by September. In the center, the Germans capture smolensk in early August and drive on Moscow by October. In the South, German and Romanian troops capture Kiev (September) and Rostov on the Don River (November). -
Badoglio
Germans immediately seize control of Rome and Northern Italy. They establish a puppet Fascist regime under Mussolini. Who is freed from imprisonment by German Commandos -
Allied troops liberate Rome.
Within six weeks, Anglo-American bombers could hit targets in Eastern Germany for the first time. -
Launch of a massive offense
The Sovietsf launch a massive offense in Eastern Byelorussia, destroying the German Army Gourp Center and driving westward to the Vistula River acress from Warsaw in central Poland -
Home Army rise up against the Germans
It was in an effort to liberate Warsaw before the arrival of the Soviet troops. They advanced halts on the east bank of the Vistula. -
First atomic bomb dropped on Japan
The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.