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Germany invades Poland
German troops swarmed across the Polish border and unleashed the first Blitzkrieg the world had seen. Hitler had been planning his attack since March - ever since German troops occupied the remainder of Czechoslovakia. -
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World War II
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Phony war
Between Britain, France and Germany. The Phoney War refers to what happened in Western Europe. To assume that nothing was going on in Europe would be wrong as Poland was in the process of being occupied with all that brought for the Polish people. However, in Western Europe very little of military importance did take place. -
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USSR defeated her neightbour
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Britain declares war on Germany
Prime Minister Chamberlain went to the airwaves to announce to the British people that a state of war existed between their country and Germany. World War II had begun. -
Soviet forces crossed the Polish frontier
Soviet forces under terms of a secret agreement with Germany marched into Poland from the East. They took control of part of it. -
French and British started mining Norwegian waters
The problem for the British was that the route south from Narvik led through Norwegian territorial waters, in an area known as the Indreled, or Inner Leads. While Norway remained neutral, there was very little the British could do to stop this trade without violating that neutrality -
Hitler struck west
When Hitler struck west, the French public was ill-prepared for the swiftness of the German advance, the dispatch with which the Maginot Line crumpled and the thrust across the Belgian border, where the defenses proved virtually nonexistent. -
The war was nearly over Mussolini who joined forces with Germany
Mussolini joined forces with German dictator Adolf Hitler and began to attack Jewish people within the country just as Germany was doing. -
Germany attacked
Hitler decided to bomb military sites -
Germany invaded the Soviet Union
Launched by Hitler in violation of the existing non-aggression treaty with Stalin, it was designed to provide the Reich with 'living space in the East'. The German dictator had advocated the conquest of the USSR. -
Japanese vs USA
Japagn went to war against USA. Japan was conquering much of eastern Asia and islands of the Pacifil -
Germany attackes the USSR
This was the second time he invaded. -
A fierce battle
They wanted the control of all the citiy -
USA stopped the tide of Japanese conquest
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German army was defeated by British forces
Hitler made a peace offer to both Western Powers. Even before they had had time to respond, he formulated a new military policy in case their reply was negative. It was all over. Poland had ceased to exist as a country. -
Hitler and Stalin
The German army and Stalin grad surrended -
Germans and Italians
They were driven out of North Africa -
British and American forces landed in Italy
Italy lost its war and Mussolini's power collapsed. Restored as Hitler's puppet in northern Italy, he drove Italy deeper into invasion, occupation, and civil war. -
Rome was taken by the British
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Germans abandoned the siege of Leningrad
The Germans decided that they would not storm the city. Hitler had stated to his generals that once Leningrad had been surrounded and bombarded from the air and by artillery on the ground, the resolve of the city to continue the fight would disappear. German bombers also dropped propaganda leaflets on the city - claiming that the population would starve to death if t. However the German forces had to abandon their offensive on Leningrad as well. -
Germans were in retreat across the Soviets
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France was invaded
This battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, the British Expeditionary Force and many French soldiers were evacuated from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo.
In the second operation, German forces outflanked the Maginot Line and pushed deep into France. Italy declared war on France -
The Americans invaded the Philippines
Was an armed conflict between a group of Filipino revolutionaries and the United States. -
The break down
German power in Europe collapsed -
German forces surrended
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Two atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities
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END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Two atomic bombs were dropped in Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devastation caused by these bombs forced Japanese goverment to surrender. That was the end.
