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Germany uses blitzkrieg to overpower Polish army. Britain and France declare war on Germany.
Make it to Warsaw in less than a month
Germany begins enforcing racial policies
Jews had to wear white armbands with blue stars of David
Expelled 1000s of Poles and replaced them with Germans
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Hundreds of Japanese planes destroyed 20 american naval vessels.
They attacked to prevent the U.S Pacific fleet from interfering in the war.
This attack killed over 2,300 Americans, 20 American ships and over 300 airplanes.
This attack is what got America into the wat -
Longest, largest and most complex naval battle in history.
Allies wanted to use the Atlantic to resupply great Britain.
Winning this battle allowed resources into Britain -
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German forces initiated a siege that killed 800,000 and lasted 900 days.
Starvation was the man reason for so many deaths
Leningrad produced 10% of the Soviet Unions industrial output.
Leningrad was Russia's capital Where it held military importance and many arms factories.
Germany capturing Leningrad removed valuable resources from the Soviets.
The soviets defensive power stood strong and pushed the Germans away -
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The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitlers’ attack on Moscow
Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives for axis forces during the Soviet Union invasion
Moscow was the capital and the largest city of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet successfully prevented the attempt by Hitler to capture capture the capital. -
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American, British and Canadian forces landed on 5 beaches that were heavily fortified in Normandy France.
This was the bloodiest battle as 4,413 allied troops died. This marked the turning point in the war for the control maintained by Nazi Germany -
This was the worlds first deployed atomic bomb that was dropped. It immediately killed 80,000 people. A bomb was dropped because invading Japan would have brought lots of American casualties.
This is what makes japan surrender.