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Japan was outraged when Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with Stalin
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Began a systematic destruction of Polish intellectuals and the ruling classes at the end of the war they killed a total of 3 million Poles -
The British and French had given Poland guarantees of military support in the event of an attack by Germany -
Invading furnace on may 10 the Germans made an effective use of mechanized forces and air power to defeat of French -
The Germany assembled the largest invasion force in history -
People in Shanghai watch their city burn followin Japanese bombardment -
An American destroyer explode during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor -
Japan manages to conquer Thailand, Philippines, and Malaya -
American naval dive bombera fly in formation over midway atoll -
The allied invasion of northern Grance U.S. troops leave landing craft and wade ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day -
Intensive attacks using incendiaries were made against the Japanese positions on Iwo Jima -
The atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima killed 70,000 people immediately by the end of 1945 an additional 30,000 had died. -
A Germán counteroffensive halted the allied drive toward the German frontier the Germans had been forced to withdraw and the Allies continued their advance rowed the rhine. -
International military tribunal at Nurembergon charges of war crimes -
The combination of the threat of further U.S. attacks with atomic weapons and the Soviet Union declararation of war against them made them surrender