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The Second World War began with this invation
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The French and British goverments could do very little to stop a Germany victory in Poland
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Soviet frontier and took control of part of Eastern poland. This was part of the deal Htiler had struck with Stalin before the war in the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
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there was little fighting between, France and Germany
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he wanted Italy to get some of the rewards of victory.
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German planes bombed military sites, factories and the capital city, London, in August and September.
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The British airforces, The RAF, fought back and the clash of the two airforces became nknown as The Battle of Britain
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Invaded in an operation known to the German leaders as Barbarossa
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Went to war against the USA with a surprise attack on the US naval base of Pearl Harbor. The result of this was that the USA joined forces with Britain and the USSR to fight Germany, Japan and Italy. In the end this was to swing the balance of the war decisively against Germany
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In the summer they concentrated their forces in the south and tried to capture the southhern city in Stalingrad
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was evetually surrendered, the battle for Salingrad was a crucial event. It proved that the Red Army could beat the German y Army, after Stalingrad Germany was on the defensive and the war began to go against Hitler
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Germans and Italians had been completely driven out of norht Africa
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The USA stopped the tide of Japanse conquest at the Battle of Midway Island. After Midway, American forces began a slow process of capturing the islands of the Pacific from the Japanese
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Germans put an stiff resisntance to the liberation of Italy
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They abandoned the siege which had been going on for over two years
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This was known as 'DDay'
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Americans invaded the Philippines, over 170.000 Japanese soldiers were killed before the Capital, Manila, was taken
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Soviet forces captured Berlin and Hitler committed suicide
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The war continued against Japan, the American goverment was very worried at the level of Japanese resistance.
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