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Germany Invades Poland
After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17, 1939.
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Germany Invades France
German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until June 6, 1944.Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940 and invaded France over the Alps.
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Germany Bombs London
The Blitz, nighttime bombing raids against London and other British cities by Nazi Germany during World War II. The raids followed the failure of the German Luftwaffe to defeat Britain's Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain.The first German attack on London actually occurred by accident.
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Lend Lease in Britain
the Lend Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.Lend Lease brought the United States one step closer to entry into the war. The plan this gave Roosevelt the power to lend arms to Britain with the understanding that, after the war, America would be paid back in kind.
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Germany Invades the Soviet Union
In 1925, Adolf Hitler declared in his political manifesto and autobiography Mein Kampf that he would invade the Soviet Union, asserting that the German people needed to secure Lebensraum to ensure the survival of Germany for generations to come.Nazi Germany launched a surprise attack against the Soviet Union, its ally in the war against Poland.The Soviets held on, and the coming of winter forced the German offensive to pause.
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war. German forces achieved major victories and occupied some of the most important economic areas of the Soviet Union.
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Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
President Roosevelt moved the US Pacific Fleet from California to Pearl Harbor in 1939. This move was a threat to Japan, who wanted to expand in the Pacific. Many people believe the Japanese were successful in their attack. They took the lives of more than 2,500 Americans and destroyed 18 ships and about 300 airplanes.
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Germany Declares War on the United States
On 11 December 1941, Nazi Germany declared war against the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations by the United States government when the US was still officially neutral during World War 2. Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict. The bombing of Pearl Harbor surprised even Germany.
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Bataan Death March
The day after the surrender of the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese, the 75,000 Filipino and American troops captured on the Bataan Peninsula begin a forced march to a prison camp near Cabanatuan. The next day, the Bataan Death March began.Out of all the veterans from New Mexico that survived the Bataan Death March, only four are still alive today.
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The Battle of Midway
This battle was the turning point in the war and the first major victory for the Allies in the Pacific.Today Midway Island is considered a territory of the United States.The Japanese thought the U.S. only had two carriers available. American forces suffered heavy losses during the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, an island of strategic importance off the coast of the Japanese home islands.
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Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Europe during World War 2. Many of the remaining Jews decided to revolt. The first armed resistance in the ghetto occurred in January 1943. On 19 April 1943, the Germans entered the ghetto. The remaining Jews knew that the Germans would murder them and they decided to resist to the last.
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Americans in D-Day
The Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944, with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. The target 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coast was divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. Strong winds blew the landing craft east of their intended positions, particularly at Utah and Omaha.
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle fought on the Western Front in Europe during World War 2. It is also the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. the Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
As the Allies advanced across Europe at the end of the World War 2, they came across concentration camps filled with sick and starving prisoners. The first major camp to be liberated was Majdanek near Lublin, Poland in July 1944. American forces liberate more than 20,000 prisoners at Buchenwald.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima took place in February 1945. By 1945, the Allies were gaining ground in the Pacific theater.The battle of Iwo Jima was important in the long-term of the war because it “allowed United States president Harry Truman to see how long and hard Japanese forces would fight to keep control of their islands”.
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Japan Gets Bombed by The United States
During World War II, an American bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.The Japanese attack intended to destroy important American fleet units, preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya and to enable Japan to conquer Southeast Asia.The Pearl Harbor attack looked like a success for Japan.
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
