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September 3-5 1939. Because of Hitler's invasion of Poland, France and Great Britain enter the war against Germany. Japan, engaged in war with China, declares its neutrality in the European War. As war broke out in Europe, American wanted to be isolated. With the nation still skeptical of allied propaganda after it had lured the U.S into the first World War, the United States declares its neutrality in the European War.
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Poland, surrenders to German forces. Poland is partitioned by Germany and Russia.
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Germany's first attack on British territory they hit Brits at the Firth of Forth (British base)
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Victory in the Battle of the River Plate, the first major naval engagement of the war, was a great boost to British morale during the ‘Phoney War’. When war broke out, the German pocket battleship Graf Spee, commanded by Captain Hans Langsdorff, was patrolling in the Atlantic. She represented a grave threat to Allied shipping, sinking six merchant ships between September and December.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway with the first major airborne attacks on Allied forces.
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Italy joins the war as an ally of Germany. Italy declares war against the Allies. Great Britain, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India and South Africa declare war on Italy. General Hering, the military governor of Paris, declares the French capital an open city to prevent its destruction.The Germans march into Paris.
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In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date
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The Battle of Britain begins. The air war designed to destroy the RAF and ease the German invasion opens with the Luftwaffe outnumbering its opponent in operational aircraft: 2,669-to-704.
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The U.S congress passes the Selective Service Act. It calls for the first peacetime draft in American history. To serve men had to be 5 feet tall , weigh 105 pounds, have correctable vision and at least half of their teeth.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact. It recognizes their right to establish a new order in Europe and Asia.
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The U.S. Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act giving Roosevelt the authority to sell, transfer, or lease war goods to the government of any Allied country, thereby effectively ending American neutrality.
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The first all-black unit of the U.S. Air Corps — the 99th Pursuit Squadron — is activated. They became known as the Tuskegee Airmen.
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Under threat of a forced march on Washington, Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8802. It combats discrimination against blacks and women in the hiring practices of defense jobs. It is the first federal gesture toward civil rights since Reconstruction.
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: killing more than 2,300 Americans; also attack the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai and Midway. A total of twelve ships sank or were beached in the attack and nine additional vessels were damaged. More than 160 aircraft were destroyed and more than 150 others damaged.
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Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.
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Japanese-American evacuees board a train at the Santa Anita Assembly Center.
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The Battle of the Coral Sea was a series of naval engagements off the north-east coast of Australia. It was fought by Allied (United States and Australian) and Japanese.The battle was significant for two main reasons:
it was the first time in World War 2 that the Japanese experienced failure in a major operation; and
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Jun 9 1942- Aug 9 1943
The Aleutian Islands Campaign was a struggle over the Aleutian Islands, part of the Alaska Territory, in the American theater and the Pacific theater of World War II.
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Aug 23 1942 Feb 2 1943
In july 1942 the nazi army bombs the soviet city of Stalingrad launching one of the bloodiest battle in history. It was the turning point in World War Two in Europe. The battle at Stalingrad bled the German army dry in Russia and after this defeat, the Germany Army was in full retreat.
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The Kasserine Pass was the site of the United States’ first major battle defeat of the war.
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Acting upon the decoded message, U.S. P-38 Lightning pilots intercept the bomber carrying Yamamoto and shoot it down. Japan's most popular military leader is killed.
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The Soviets win the Battle of Kursk. It is the largest tank battle in history. The German Luftwaffe also loses the air war and dominion of Russian skies for the first time.
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The Battle of Berlin begins. Bombing of the German capital will continue until March 24, 1944.
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January 22, 1944 – June 5, 1944 Following the Allied invasion of Italy in September 1943, fighting during the Anzio campaign saw Allied forces sustain around 7,000 killed and 36,000 wounded/missing. German losses were around 5,000 killed, 30,500 wounded/missing, and 4,500 captured.
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The Allies invade Western Europe in the largest amphibious attack in history. More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy.
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General Eisenhower addresses a paratrooper who is preparing for the D-Day invasion of France. England, June 1944.
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A major german offensive is launched against the allies in the ardennes mountains region on western front. Adolph Hitler attempted to split the allied armies in northwest europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the ardennes to antwerp.
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A graves registration officer identifies the American dead among the Germans killed in the Ardennes. January 11, 1945.
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American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima.
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Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., waves from the cockpit of the Enola Gay just before takeoff. The plane would drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
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World War II Ends
A formal surrender ceremony is conducted in Tokyo Bay on the U.S. battleship Missouri. World War II officially ends.World War II can be seen as the end of an era of European domination of the world.
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