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The Second World began when Germany invaded Poland
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The French and British could do very little to stop a German victory in Poland
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This was part of the deal Hitler had struck with Stalin before the war in the Nazi-Soviet Pact
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgeadd_early-stages-of-wwii-and-the-phoney-war_techThe was a little fighting between Britain,France and Germany
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In April 1940 the French and the British startded mining Norwegain waters to stop the trade in oren ore. Germany responded by invading Norway and Denmark. The fall of Finland, Norway anda Denmark led to a political crisis in Britain anda France. Both primer ministers were forced to resing. In Britain Churchill came to power.
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Sensing that the war was nearly Mussolini joined forces with Germany
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Germany invaded the Soviet Union in an operation knwon to the German leaaders as Barbarosa
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While the battle of Moscow raged, the most powerful country in the world, the USA, become involved in the war. Japanese went to war against USA with a surprise atack on the US naval base of Peal Harbor
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The concentrated thei forcesin the south and tried to capture the southern city of Stalingard
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By May 1943 the Germans and Italians had been completely driven out of north Africa
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The Germans put up sitff resistance to the liberation of Italy
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Wich had been going for two years. By the summer of 1944 the Germans were in retreat across the Sovier Union.
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This was knwon as "D Day"
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By 25 August British and Amercian forcer had reached Paris
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Germans launched a counter-attack in December 1944 in the Ardennes area of Belgium. After some early succes the German attack was turned back
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The Germans forces finally surrendered on 8 May but war continued against Japan.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjqxegu2n8kIn August 1945 two atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The desvastation caused by theses bombs forced the Japanese goverments to surrender on 14 August 1945. The Second World War was over