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"Britain and France were forced to declare war after Germany ignored their separate ultimatums, delivered on 3 September 1939, demanding the withdrawal of German troops from Poland."
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Hitler launched his blitzkrieg (lightning war) against Holland and Belgium. Rotterdam was bombed almost to extinction. Both countries were occupied.
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the last allied soldier arrived home from France at the end of a 10-day operation to bring back hundreds of thousands of retreating allied troops trapped by the German Army.
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the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF from July to September 1940. Their ultimate failure was one of the turning points of World War Two and prevented Germany from invading Britain
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German codename for the invasion of the USSR
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He was also appointed the Prime Minister. He became the most powerful person in Japan (even more so than the emperor at the time), and Japan was controlled by its military
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In one stroke the Japanese action silenced the debate that had divided Americans ever since the German defeat of France left England alone in the fight against the Nazi terror.
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Japanese forces invaded the British colony of Hong Kong.
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Hitler set in motion one of the bitterest conflicts of the 20th century , he launched a two-pronged attack in what he believed would be his final offensive in the East
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising sets a heroic precedent, and becomes a symbol of the indomitableness of the human spirit. In all, 56,065 Jews are captured: 5,000-6,000 are killed in the fighting and fires, more than 7,000 are shot, and nearly 7,000 are deported to Treblinka.
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Italy surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, while German forces quickly occupied north and central Italy
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160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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Iwo Jima bombarded by the U.S. Navy. where it all started the battle of jima
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The first atomic bomb has been dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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the United States launched a second, bigger atomic bomb against the city of Nagasaki. The device known as "Fat man", after Winston Churchill, weighed nearly 4,050 kg (nearly 9,000lb).