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Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering World War I on the side of the Allies—Britain, France and Russia.
Info:http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/italy-declares-war-on-austria-hungary
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Adolf Hitler was chosen as Chancellor of Germany. On 1933, Germany saw the rise of the Nazi coming. Info & Photo: http://www.historyinanhour.com/2010/01/30/hitler-becomes-chancellor/
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USSR and Germany signed a contract that they would not be allies or enemies. All they have to do is not fight with each other and don't help others while fighting that specific country.
Photo and Info:http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/german-soviet-nonaggression-pact -
On 1939, Germany invades poland. Germans bombed Polish Airfields and they entered with their U-boats and warships. Info: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-poland
Photo: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/06/world-war-ii-the-invasion-of-poland-and-the-winter-war/100094/ -
Hitler starts attacking western countries and he started sending his army forces into Belgium and Poland.
Info:http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-poland
Photo:http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/06/did-winston-churchill-start-world-war-ii.html -
in 1940, the germans attacked the coasts of Britain. then after figuring out that Britain had a strong air force, they started bombing Britains' airfields.
Info & Photo:http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_ii/battle_of_britain.php -
Japanese fighter planes attacked American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes.
Info: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
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prisoners were force-marched north to San Fernando and then taken by rail in cramped and unsanitary boxcars farther north to Capas
Info and photo:https://www.britannica.com/event/Bataan-Death-March -
US defended air and naval vs the Japanese in papa new guineu.
Info; https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Coral-Sea
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Japanese planes began bombing Midway ; successive counterattacks by American torpedo planes and bombers were launched. The four Japanese carriers were bombed and sunk later on ; the Navy carrier USS Yorktown is seriously damaged but does not go down.
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Successful soviet union defend Stalingrad in ww2. One of the greatest battles because they stopped the German from entering the USSR.
Info and Photo: https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad -
Italy surrendered during WW1 due to the downfall of Mussolini.
Info and Photo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/8/newsid_3612000/3612037.stm -
156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.
Info and photo: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
Entered Auschwitz and there they found lots of sick and exhausted prisoners. The Germans were forced to leave these prisoners behind in their hasty retreat from the camp.
Info and Photo:https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007724 -
largest battle fought on the Western Front in Europe during World War II; it is also the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army.
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Jacques Leclerc enters the free French capital triumphantly. German intransigence remained, but Paris was free from German control
Info:http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/liberation-of-paris
photo:http://www.apimages.com/Collection/Landing/Liberation-of-Paris-1944/30a30c0b93ca4c8d9bf9f737bb7eb596 -
U.S. Marines stormed the beaches U.S.
Info:http://www.history.com/news/the-battle-of-iwo-jima-begins-70-years-ago
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FDR died in 1945 after WW1, he died while taking a portrait.
He died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Info: https://millercenter.org/president/fdroosevelt/death-of-the-president
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Hitler died because he committed suicide using a gun.
Info: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide-in-his-underground-bunker
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Germany surrenders which brings an ending to WW2. General Alfred Jodl, signed the surrender.
Photo and Info: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/germany-surrenders-allies-date-nazis-wwii_n_3230901.html -
USA is the first country to use an Atomic bomb in a war and it drops it on Hiroshima, Japan. End of WW2!
Info: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima
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Bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan-3 days after Bomb 1 has been dropped. Japan was basically forced to surrender due to it's country's destruction.
Photo and info: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb525-The-Atomic-Bomb-and-the-End-of-World-War-II/ -
Japan formally surrenders and that ended WW2. Japan had to surrenders due to it's country's state and because the whole army forces were destroyed and finally because America started to invade and capture some of Japan's Islands.
Info: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japan-surrenders
Photo: http://historybuff.com/wwii-total-misrepresentation-japans-surrender-xb70DNvzDZWk
