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Hitler unified all German speaking people, Annexed Australia and demanded the liberation of German people in Sudetenland- region of Czechoslovakia.
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Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier of France & Mussolini of Italy met in Munich and agreed that Hitler should have the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia
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Hitler marched into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country despite what the Treaty of Munich stated.
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(March/ April of 1939) Britain begun re-arming and a highly secret radar early warning system was installed along the east coast. Conscription was introduced and assurances were given to Poland- who was being threatened by the Fuhrer
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Hitler and Stalin signed a non-aggression pact which included secret clauses for the division of Poland
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The months following Britain's declaration of war are referred to as the phoney war because Britain saw no military action (sept 1939- May 1940)
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Hitler invades Poland
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Neville Chamberlain broadcasted the announcement that the country was at war
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Hitler invades and occupied Denmark & Norway to safeguard supply routes of Swedish ore and also to establish a Norwegian base from which to break the British naval blockade om Germany
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Italian forces in North Africa were routed by the British led by General Wavell
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Hitler launched his Blitzkrieg against Holland and Belgium. Rotterdam was bombed almost to extinction. Both countries were occupied
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resigns after pressure from Labor members for a more active prosecution of the war and Churchill became the new head of the wartime coalition government
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The French, Marshall Pertain, signed an armistice with Germany taking France, which had been devastated, out of the war and Germany into occupation
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British commander in chief General Gort, had been forced to retreat to the coast of Dunkirk. Troops waited while under fire to be taken off the beaches. 338,000 men were rescued and 140,000 men formed the nucleus of the free French army under general Charles de Gaulle
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Motive for entering the war was the hope of rich pickings from the spoils of war
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4 phases
1. in July Hitler sent his Luftwaffe bombers to attack British ports
2. August the attacks on shipping continued but bombing raids were concentrated on RAF airlines
3. The Blitz- from sept 7 the city of London was heavily bombed, Hitler hoped to destroy the morale of the British citizens
4. Night bombings begun, raids ceased on oct 31 when the RAF defended the skies -
signed by Germany, Italy and Japan
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early 1941
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Hitler sent 3 mil soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia. total of 20 mil casualties
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The Japanese attacked the US pacific fleet at PH, Hawaii
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took in about 60,000 prisoners
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the US defended the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway. US was able to push back the Japanese after the battle.
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Gen Alexander was given a hand-written directive from Churchill ordering his main directive was to be the destruction of the German-Italian army commanded by Field-Marshall Rommell together with all its supplies and establishments in Egypt and Libya
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Russians won their first victory against Germany here
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British & American forces under Gen Dwight Eisenhower landed in the NW of Africa and assumed control of French Morocco and Algeria then gradually closed in on the Germans
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Montgomery attacked the German-Italian army in N Africa with a massive bombardment followed by an armored attack, then proceeded to chase the routed enemy 1500 miles across the desert
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British and US forces invade Sicily
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The Allied troops had won the island of Sicily
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Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met to co-ordinate plans for a simultaneous squeeze on Germany & discussed post-war settlements.
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Mussolini was thrown out of office and the new Government of Italy surrendered to the British and US. Then they agreed to join the Allies. Germans took control of the Italian army and freed Mussolini from imprisonment and set him up as head of a puppet government in northern Italy. This blocked any further allied advances through Italy
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British and American forces managed to defeat the Axis forces in North Africa
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the seige of leningrad was lifted by the Soviet Army
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Although Italy had surrendered in Sept., it was only now that the allies were able to liberate Rome from the Germans
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British forces under General Slim, with help from guerrilla fighting Chindits led by Orde Wingate, evicted Japanese from Burma
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Germany was beat by the Allies in the Srdennes region of Belgium
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The Invasion of Normandy. On June 6, 1944 the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe.
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Liberated from the Germans
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First V2 flying planes killed 3 people in London
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crossed Rhine
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Succeded by President Truman
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in nw Germany, Holland and Denmark
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Victory in Europe
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Hitler's successor Admiral Donitz
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lost to Clement Atlee;s Labour party
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Generals refused to surrender, US dropped atomic bomb
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Japan still refued to surrender, US drops 2nd atomic bomb
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Formally ended WWII