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Rhineland territories were stripped from Germany becuase the Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. Germany took the blame and had to pay for all the damage.
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The German port of Danzig had been cut-off from the rest of Germany so that Poland would have a seaport on the Baltic.
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Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, He promised to make their country powerful again and regain its boundaries.
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Germany was rearming because they wanted to regain power and thier boundries.
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Hitler reoccupied the Rhineland territories riget after rearming Germany.
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Hitler announced his plans to crush Czechoslovakia
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Hitler took things one step further and occupied all of Czechoslovakia.
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Germany invades Poland, World War II begins.France and Great Britain declare war on Germany. Canada declares war on Germany. Soviets invade Poland. This was a very significant event because it began World War II.
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Soviets invade Finlands
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
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Germany invades Holland, Belgium and France.
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Hitler and Russia’s Stalin controlled all of Europe
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Soviets occupy Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
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Italy attacks British Somaliland (North Africa).
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Germany, Italy and Japan sign the “Axis” pact.
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Italy invades Greece; Germany attacks Romania.
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Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union, breaking their secret treaty. Canada was Britain's the only ally until the Soviet Union joined them. This is important because the Soviet Union became a great ally.
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USS California sinking at Pearl Harbour,
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Japan invades the Dutch colonies in the Pacific.
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Japanese troops invade Burma and the Philippines.
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Allied bombing campaign of Germany begins.
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Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.
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Canadian troops made a disastrous raid on the French port of Dieppe. 5000 Canadians made a raid due to bad orders. 2000 were taken prisoner and 1000 men were killed . This battle was very significant because people learned from their mistakes from this battle.
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British and Australians begin to counter-attack Japanese troops in the Pacific.
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
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Allies, including Canadians, invade Sicily in first invasion of Axis-held Europe. Russian tanks defeat Germans at Kursk.
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Canadian troops take part in the bloody battle for Ortona, Italy.The first invasion of Europe. The allies U.S., Britain, and Canada invaded Sicily, Italien mainland. Russian tanks defeat Germans at Kursk.This was significant because Italy soon surrendered and was liberated.
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US troops in Pacific begin drive on Japan.
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llies invade Normandy to begin the liberation of France - Canadian troops land on three of the five beaches
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Allies liberate Paris from Germans.
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Allies take Aachen, a German city
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Germany’s last counterattack on the allies - the Battle of the Bulge ,fails.Canadian troops begin the liberation of Holland. Russian troops continue to advance west through Poland towards Germany.
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Auschwitz death camp liberated by Russians. The signification is that countries are almost free from the Naris.
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Russian troops enter Berlin; Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders: V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.
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US troops capture Okinawa, the first of the Japanese “home islands.”
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The U.S. drop atomic bombs are dropped on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrenders: V-J Day, war ends. This significent becuase people are free from Naris, and thier is no more war.
