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During a meeting with Czech President Emil Hacha, Hitler threatened a bombing raid against Prague, the Czech capital, unless he obtained free passage for German troops into Czech borders. He got it. -
Poland was being threatened by the Fuhrer, and that's why Britain helps Poland. -
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The pact was an agreement of convenience between the two bitter ideological enemies. It permitted Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to carve up spheres of influence in eastern Europe, while pledging not to attack each other for 10 years. Less than two years later, however, Hitler launched an invasion of the Soviet Union. -
It was an eight-month period of comparative inaction at the beginning of the Second World War between the German invasion of Poland and that of Norway. -
German troops invade Poland, triggering World War II. -
This declaration of war is in response to the German agression in the invasion of Poland. -
German warships enter major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, German forces occupy Copenhagen, among other Danish cities. -
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"Blitzkrieg", a German word meaning “Lightning War,” was Germany’s strategy to avoid a long war in the first phase of World War II in Europe. Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns.
Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on this new military tactic of "Blitzkrieg". -
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Early in the Second World War, in late May 1940, the Allied forces of British, French and Belgian troops were trapped by the invading German army on the coast of France and Belgium, in the area around Dunkirk. The desperate rescue that followed saved the Allied cause in Europe from total collapse, and was the biggest evacuation in military history. -
Italy enters war on side of Axis powers -
The armistice provided for the maintenance of a quasi-sovereign French state and for the division of the country into an occupied zone. -
This battle was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. -
The tripartite pact is signed, which is an agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan -
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Germany invades Greece through Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. -
Hitler attacks Russia. -
The Pearl Harbor was an American ship and was attacked by Japan. -
The two Allies declared war on Japan after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbour on the 7th December 1941. -
This event was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The US and Japan confronted. -
This event was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
This event was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought in Egypt between Axis forces of the Panzer Army Africa and Allied forces of the Eighth Army. -
The North African military campaigns of World War II were strategically important for both the Western Allies and the Axis powers. The Allied victory in North Africa destroyed or neutralized nearly 900,000 German and Italian troops, opened a second front against the Axis, permitted the invasion of Sicily. -
This battle was won by the Soviet Union against a German offensive. -
This event was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allies invaded the island of Sicily and took it from the Axis powers. It began with a large amphibious and airborne operation, followed by a six-week land campaign, and initiated the Italian Campaign. -
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The D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, was one of the most important military operations to the western Allies’ success during World War II. By the end of June, more than 850,000 US, British, and Canadian troops had come ashore on the beaches of Normandy -
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German militar weapons. -
It was a last-ditch German military counter-offensive against the Allied armies in the West. Hitler hoped that the German counter-attack would surround the British and American armies and stall the Allied offensive against Germany. By early January 1945, the German military effort had failed. The Battle of the Bulge cost the Reich some 100,000 casualties and tremendous losses in military equipment. -
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Victory in Europe Day, the day when the second World War ends. -
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This event plus the atomic bombs caused the Japanese surrender. -
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