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Soviet troops seized Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and part of Finland.
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German forces overran Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Belgium. -
The Germany army invaded France, Britain sent their troops to protect France, but Germany send them to the West. -
Winston Churchill became Great Britain's prime minister -
The French government surrendered to Germany
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The British had an air force to help protect the country -
Hitler ordered to defeat the air force in order to conquer England -
Hitler couldn't destroy the British air force, so he decided to invade Britain again. -
Hitler directed his air force to bomb British cities, however the British sent their fighter planes against Germany.
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Hitler added nations of the Balkans into his German Empire, he then turned against Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union -
Franklin Roosevelt developed a secret project, where more than 600,000 people worked to develop the atomic bomb. -
The killing of millions of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, those with mental illnesses, and anyone that Hitler considered "Undesirable".
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Japan wanted the European colonies and the Philippines ruled by the USA, they wanted to destroy the US Naval base. -
After the bombing of the military base, USA declared war to Japan, Germany and Italy also declared war to USA -
The nations fighting the Axis powers (US, Great Britain, and France) called themselves the Grand Alliance -
Hitler had decided on a "Final Solution" for ridding Germany and Europe of Jewish people -
Japan captured European colonies in Southeast Asia and the islands in the western Pacific -
Allied Naval forces obtained a victory at the Battle of the Coral Sea. Thea Allies had stopped the Japanese advance. -
China and the Soviet Union agreed to defeat Hitler and Japan, and the allies invaded North Africa -
The allies defeated the German forces in Africa, and then they invaded Sicily and mainland Italy. -
The Soviets had started moving across Eastern Europe -
Allied armies crossed the English Channel from Britain to land on the beaches of France -
The allies continue fighting Japan, and their land forces seized the control of Salomon islands and New Guinea, and Philippines -
Even though Hitler send his troops to save Mussolini, Italy surrendered -
The remaining German armies fight against the Allies in the West and the Soviets in the East
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The Allies fought their way North through. Allied planes bombed Japan, and the war in Europe was over. -
During the summer of 1945, the Allies again offered Japan a chance to surrender
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After the dead of Franklin Roosevelt, the Vice president Harry Truman was immediately sworn in as a president. -
Hitler committed suicide -
Germany surrendered and the war in Europe was over. -
The Enola Gay plane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and between 80,000 and 120,000 people were killed. -
A second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki, another 35,000 to 75,000 Japanese died. -
Japan finally surrendered, even though months ago the Japan's military leaders refused to. -
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After the war, the Allies held war crimes trials, they tried German and Austrian leaders for the atrocities.