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Adolf Hitler orders Nazi Army to enter Poland. -
Seven days after Britain and France declared war on Germany, Canada followed suit. Taking arms alongside the British Army, Canada began deploying troops to England for the upcoming battles. -
The Unitled States within two months the first contingents of Canadian Troups arrived in the United Kingdom supplement of the British expeditinary forces. www.mta.ca -
Canada works with commonwealth allies to create the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, helping Canada and their allies establish a dominant and powerful air force. -
After a string of German victories, Canadian parliament passes a bill leading to the mandatory requirement for able-bodied men to fight as a member of the Canadian Army. -
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain -
On the morning of December 8, Japan attacked Hong Kong. Japanese warplanes pounded the airport and their ground forces poured across the frontier from China and into the mainland portion of the colony. Demonstrating an unexpected skill at night fighting, the Japanese kept advancing. https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/wars-and-conflicts/second-world-war/defence-of-hong-kong -
The Raid on Dieppe took place on the morning of August 19, 1942. The forces attacked at five different points on a front roughly 16 kilometres long. Four simultaneous flank attacks were to go in just before dawn, followed half an hour later by the main attack on the town of Dieppe itself. https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/wars-and-conflicts/second-world-war/battle-of-dieppe https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/wars-and-conflicts/second-world-war/battle-of-dieppe -
The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. The operation, given the codename OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France.
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On May 8, 1945 Germany surrendered. After the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945, and the second world war came to an end. https://www.loc.gov