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President Neville Chamberlain
-Britain's prime minister from 1937 to 1940 -
Hitler invades Poland
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Lightning war(Blitzkrieg tactic)
-use of tanks
-use of aircrafts
-faster movements -
President Winston Churchill
-prime minister of Britain from 1940 to 1945 -
Philippe Pétain
-prime minister in 1940
-Head of State of the Vichy Regime -
Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
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Hitler invades Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg and France
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Battle of Dunkerque
As the Allies were losing the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defense and evacuation of British and other Allied forces to Britain -
Vichy Regime
-Lead by Philippe Pétain
-Germany and Italy occupied all the metropolis
-The french administration was led by Pétain in Vichy -
Battle of Britain
-Germany wanted to convince Britain into a peace treaty.
-They bombarded important areas -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
-military major
-responsible of the invasion of France
-later he became president of US from 1953 to 1961 -
Landed of Normandy(France)
-Led by General Eisenhower
-The aim was the liberation of France -
President Harry S. Truman
-president of the US from 1945 to 1953