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Germany invades Poland iniciating WW2 in Europe
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Britain and France declares war on Germany</a>Because Germany invaded Poland, Great Britain and France honored their guarantee of Poland’s border and declared war to Germany.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/3/newsid_3493000/3493279.stm
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the French government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the Nazis launched their invasion of Western Europe.
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Germany raided Great Britain by night bombing them.
http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/WW2_V-1_Buzz-Bomb_London_Blitz_article
Article of those times of the London Blitz -
The Afrika Korps attacked Britain forcing them to retreat east east to Tobruk, Libya
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Hitler Invades the Soviet Union, although it was a very hard battle, since many troops were lost many died from coldness, because they did not though it would be so cold. Second primary source of the page, Joseph Stalin Radio Speech..
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Advisors began providing Roosevelt with troop mobilization, industrial strength, and logistics to defeat enemies in Europe and Asia. Only that in that time the U.S was a neutral country and had not yet declared war on anyone.
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Japan bombed pearl harbor, which is a military establishment in hawaii, because usa cut off the oil fir japan, also wanted to show their power. This event brings the USA into ww2, lasted 2 hours, 19 ships, 2300 killed 1100 injured. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e99lfmmDN0
Video of the actual Pearl Harbor attack -
Allies strike back and attack tokyo, james doolittle led the attack, was the revenge of what happened in pearl harbor. In the battle of the coral ships, ships were only used to take off, the planes fired not the ships.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBYYcuREDrs
Actual footage of bombing of Tokyo -
A battle between US and Japan. Midway is a small island in the pacific, both US and Japan wanted to take midway because it was in the middle so they could use it to refill gas since the planes did not lasted much. US won the battle, was the first victory in the pacific for US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0bxEF3EQDM
Interview with survivor Harry Ferrier actual clips as well are shown -
It was the successful soviet defence of the coty Stalingrad. It stopped the German advence into the Soviet union, considered as the turning point of WW2 in favor of the Allies, it was a really bloody war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq_zUUDmAAY
Live footage of the war -
General Eisenhower camed up with a plan to involve US in the European part of the war The D-Day invation in Normdy, France, included the demolition of the first group of soldiers. But then the US and the British army with money and advanced technology that part, and began their journey to war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wyXvKpYpio
Interview of a D-Day survivor
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Bloodiest battle for US. Hitler's last effort to keep allies away. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/bulge-dispatches/
Veterans of the battle of the Bulge comments. -
Meeting between Britain, Us, and the Soviet Union, talked about how is the world going to look after the war is over. (Churchil, Stalin, Roosevelt)
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One of the bloodiest wars in the pacific. Resulted in victory of the allies over the Jappanese.There were many deaths on both sides.
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Germany signed a surrender in Reims, France
http://www.history.com/speeches/truman-announces-germanys-surrender#truman-announces-germanys-surrender
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The us dropped and atomic bomb on Nagasaki since Us were losing lots of troops and they had no other alternative, many Japanese people died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aLU-3Z-r-g
Survivor talkes about the dissaster of the bombing in Nagasaki her name is Sachiko Matsuo -
US drops a bomb into Hiroshima 3 days after bombing Nagasaki, thousands of Japanese people died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=senGVPRN1pI
Shizuko Abe survivor of the Hiroshima bombing -
After the 2 bombings Japan surrenders to US, US enforced some laws to Japan like demilitarazing, democratization and one positive thing that was equal rights for women, also there was then positive trade relationship between US and Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0FOj-DQ_Q
Celebrations of Japanese surrenders, radio brodcast
