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some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. On September 3, they declared war on Germany(http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-poland)
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It was a part of Hitlers master plan to invade France. German tanks roll in and take France from the Berlin wall because the French put all their troops on one front.(http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-enter-paris)
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A combat of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks. It was part of Hitlers master plan to take it but he could he bombed them for 11 months and they still didn't give up. (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-britain)
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The act authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.” Britain, the Soviet Union, China, Brazil, and many other countries received weapons under this law.(http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/lend-lease-act)
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Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles. (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa)
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Japan bombed Pearl harbor and we had 21 ships in that harbor. They bombed us because we stopped trading oil with them.(http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pearl-harbor-bombed)
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we declare war on japan because they bombed us. Germany declared war on us because we are getting in the way because of the lend lease act helping other countries fighting Germany. (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-united-states-declares-war-on-japan)
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U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.(http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march)
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the Battle of Midway–one of the most decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan–comes to an end. In the four-day sea and air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers with the loss of only one of its own, the Yorktown, thus reversing the tide against the previously invincible Japanese navy.(http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-midway-ends)
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More than 400,000 Jews in Warsaw, the capital, were confined to an area of the city that was little more than 1 square mile. In November 1940, this ghetto was sealed off by brick walls, barbed wire and armed guards, and anyone caught leaving was shot on sight. (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/warsaw-ghetto-uprising)
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Hitler turns on stalin because he thought soon enough stalin would turn on him. The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history, with combined military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million. (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad)
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D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day)
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The Germans threw 250,000 soldiers into the initial assault, 14 German infantry divisions guarded by five panzer divisions-against a mere 80,000 Americans. Their assault came in early morning at the weakest part of the Allied line, an 80-mile poorly protected stretch of hilly, woody forest. (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-the-bulge)
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As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. Many of these prisoners had survived forced marches into the interior of Germany from camps in occupied Poland. These prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease. (https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131)
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three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima)
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The U.S. drops two atomic bombs on there two largest city's ending the world war. The citys were left because there was so much radiation. (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japan-surrenders)
