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On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. The one thousand year Reich started. description: http://www.historyinanhour.com/2010/01/30/hitler-becomes-chancellor/
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germany invaded Czechoslovakia, breaking the pact it had with britain and france. the agreement was they werent supposed to declare war on eachother for the next 10 years to make peace but after what hitler did great britain and france are calling him a traitor that cant commit to agreements. descriptions: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/german-soviet-nonaggression-pact
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german forces bombard land because hitler wants to seek out the territory and have it for himself because to him it was lost territory and he ultimately wants to rule poland.ww2 had begun description: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-poland
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was the first lord of the admirality, replaced neville chamberlain because he lost the confidence vote in the house of commons, so he resigned. winston took his place as british prime minister description: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/churchill-becomes-prime-minister
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after withholding a formal allegiance, benito mussolini decides to go to war on france and great britain. description: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/italy-declares-war-on-france-and-great-britain
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german and british airforces clashed in the sky over the united kingdom and started the largest sustained bombing campaign ever at that time. germany failed at targeting the royal air force even after extensive stalking, britian won and saved them from an invasion proving that just an air war could save the country. description: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-britain
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japanese fighter planes bombed and attacked honolulu in hawaii and killed many sailors and soldiers in pear harbor, it was just before 8am and it lasted 2 hours yet was devastating
description: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
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american and filipino troops in bataan had to march 65 miles across the peninsula because the japanese invaded the island, many died marching on the way, because they were marching in harsh conditions.
description: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march
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the first ever air sea battle in history. japan was planning an attack on a port in new guinea but the allied forces intercepted it and planned their own attack so japans attck backfires on them and they started the battle, basically japan was out of planes to start their ground attack so what they did was surrender. and the allied forces won, WOOOHH
description: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-coral-sea
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japan planned another ambush with the little carriers it had left but was defeated again because thanks to code breaking, america found out and planned a reverse ambush back on them. permanent damage was put on japans army and since america won, merica and its allies get to move up to offensive position.
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one of the bloodiest battles in history, the soviet union stopped germany from invading stalingrad. it marked the turning in the tide of war in the favour of the allies.
description: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad
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general dwight eisenhower announces the surrender of italy after weeks of negotiating with general Pietro Badoglio they came with the conditional surrender of italy. hitler responded with their plan operation avalanche. eisenhower allowed the allies to land in southern italy and beat the germans further up the peninsula.
description: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/italian-surrender-is-announced
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156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on a 5 mile beach in normandy to start the biggest, most extensive, and planned out war ever, the germans lost and so everything is ok.
description: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
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british, american, canadian, and french troops snuck into the camps with the germans quickly retreated for war or something and set free all of the jews. theyw ent into auschwitz first then many more being heroes.....'merica :3
description: https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007724
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after the germans invaded paris there was a few people who didnt agree and wanted to resist and creat a french resistance lead by General Jacques-Philippe Leclerc named The French 2nd Armored Division. de gaulle met with einesenhower because he wanted to postpone the liberation but einsenhower was like nu so de gaulle politely said if you dont do it i wont the TF2AD to paris myself.
description: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/paris-liberated
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basically hitler wanted to split the allied armies in northern europe by launching a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. and catching 'merica :3 off guard, which they did and fought despratley creating an allied line that gave the appearance of a bulge...x3
description: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge
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3 u.s. marine divition went to the island of iwo jima to start a war i guess so the troops were roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. after like a month of fighting 'merica won and theres a pic of them raising a flag in victory.
decription: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima
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was in georgia when he was sitting in the living room at 1pm complaining about a bad pain in the back of his head, then he fainted, everyone brought the doctorsa dn they told him that it was massive cerebral hemorrhage and so he died and they told his family at the white house.
description: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-dies
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hitler apparently commited suicide with his mistress after he married her and wrote his will after the war to finally end it
description: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/adolf-hitler
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germany surrendered, ending world war two. the general in high command named general alfred jodi, which signed the unconditional surrender of both east and west forces that were in reims france which took affect the day after,
description: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/germany-surrenders-allies-date-nazis-wwii_n_3230901.html
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an american bomber named enola gay dropped the bomb on hiroshima japan right in the middle of it killing thousands of people annnddd after three days the second bomb came
description: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima
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japan didnt have anything and was very weak after the bombing so they had no choice but to surrender
description: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima
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named fat man cuz it was small but made a big explosion, was dropped in nagasaki japan three days after the first bomb, killing 40,000 and more people
description: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima
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