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Hitler becomes Chancellor
Adolf Hitler was not elected to power in Germany by an overwhelming surge of popular demand. The Nazi Party certainly achieved substantial support, winning 37 per cent of the total vote in the 1932 election.The German president, Field Marshal von Hindenburg was pursuaded, to appoint Hitler as chancellor in a coalition government. -
France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
The Declaration of war by France and the United Kingdom was given on 3 September 1939, after German forces invaded Poland. Despite the speech being the official announcement of both France and the United Kingdom, the speech was given by the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in Westminster, London. -
Germany launches air attack on Great Britain
On this day in 1940, the Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which will last three and a half months, begins.120 German bombers and fighters struck a British shipping convoy, while 70 more bombers attacked dockyard installations in South Wales. -
Germany and the axis powers attack Russia
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, starting Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slavs as a slave-labour force for the Axis war-effort, and to seize the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories. -
July 1942
Roosevelt ordered the invasion of Morocco and Algeria. (Two french territories indirectly uner German control.) Gave the army some experience without requiring a lot of troops and helped the British troops fight the Germans in Egypt. -
August 1942
German submarines had sunk about 360 American ships along the East Coast, including oil tankers. In result the loss of many ships convinced the U.S Navy to set up a convey system in which cargo ships traveled in groups escorted by warships. -
January 1943
Roosevelt headed to Casablanca, Morocco to meet the prime minister. Roosevelt and Churchhill agreed to step up the banning of Germany. -
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January 1943 - May 1945
The Royal Air Force and the U.S eighth army air force dropped 53,000 tons of explosic=ves on Germany every month. This caused a severe oil shortages, wreaked the railroad system and destoryed aircraft factories that Germany's air force could not replace its losses. -
The D-Day Invasion.
The D-Day Invasion of France that would force Germany to again fight the war on two fronts. The invasion was a success. Eisenhower leads D-Day invasion. -
Paris is liberated from German control
After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. German resistance was light, and General Dietrich von Choltitz, commander of the German garrison, defied an order by Adolf Hitler to blow up Paris’ landmarks and burn the city to the ground before its liberation. On, August 26, Free French General Charles de Gaulle led a joyous liberation march down the Champs d’Elysees. -
Germany surrenders to the Allies
On May 7, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II. Germany, which began the war with a ruthless attack upon Poland, followed by successive aggressions and brutality in internment camps, surrendered with an appeal to the victors for mercy toward the German people and armed forces.
