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Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier signed the Munich Pact along with Adolf Hitler. The pact consisted of adverting the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to Germany conquest.
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The German invasion of Denmark was the fighting that followed the German army crossing the Danish border
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Lasting 8 months, the Battle of Britain was started from Hitler air bombing onto England. Also known as the lightening war. hitler bombed 16 British cities but London was bombed 71 times and 57 consecutive nights. Britain held down their forces and never gave in. Eventually Hitler moved onto Russia.
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Japan attacked the US navy base at pearl harbor both by Japan's naval and air forces. More than 2,000 military and civilians were killed. The US then declares war on Japan. This is what brought the US into World War 2.
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between the 4th and the 7th of June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
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More than 130,000 allies storm the beaches of Norway. Within 1 week 1 million men have landed. The allies then liberated France on August 25, 1944. Not knowing that they just paved the way for allied victory in Europe.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office. 1:00 PM Roosevelt complained about a terrible pain in the back of his head and soon after collapsed to the ground unconscious. At 3:30 PM that day, doctors announced his death due to a massive cerebral hemorrhage in the brain.
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Auschwitz was the biggest concentration camp in WWII. On this day Soviet troops entered the camp and it was liberated . The surviving prisoners were set free.
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Adolf Hitler kills himself by a gunshot
