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Germany launches a suprise invasion of Denmark and Norway.
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Tactically manuevering around the french troops Germans cut off allied forces in the north Italy enters the war a few days later and invades france from the south.Four days later France Surrenders.
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Hitler attacks britain with both sea and air. For twomonths britain is bombed by the germans.Hitler calls off the invasion 2 days later after the Royal Air Force destroys 56 German planes while losing only 26 themselves
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hitler invades soviet union, under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II.
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FDR and Churchill meet on a warship in the atlantic where they made a declaration of principles describing the united states and britains pledges to seek no territorial gain, seek no change in the chosen government of the people, work on disarment of aggressors etc.
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Hideki Tojo becomes prime minister in Japan, and plans for war with the united states
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180 japanese warplanes attack the U.S. naval base at pearl Harbor killing some 2400 people and crippling the united states pacific fleet while only losing 29 planes themselves.The United States Declares War on Japan the very next day.
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Islands of Hawaii, near Oahu - The Japanese attack force under the command of Admiral Nagumo, consisting of six carriers with 423 planes, is about to attack. At 6 a.m., the first attack wave of 183 Japanese planes takes off from the carriers located 230 miles north of Oahu and heads for the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
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A. Philip Randolph fought racial discrimination in war industries and the armed services.
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GI stands for Goverment Issue and became a adjective to describe soldiers.The Selective Service system expanded the draft and provided 10 million more soldiers to meet the armed forces needs.
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All Jews in Germany and the occupied countries were deported to sealed ghettos. Many were then shipped to labor camps where they lived under brutally inhuman conditions. Hundreds of thousands were sent directly to the gas chambers in death camps.
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In the Philippines 80,000 american and philippino troops held out against 200,000 invading Japanese troops for four months.The US is forced out of the Philippines only to retaliate in April when they bomb Tokyo and other cities.
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Kamikaze suicide planes crash bomb laden planes into Allied Ships .The Americans ratake the Philippines and cause heavy damage to the imperial Navy
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Truman orders the bombs made in the Manhatten Project to make plans fro dropping two atomic bombs on Nagsaki and Hiroshima
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Enola Gay releases the atomic Bomb over Hiroshima. Destroying almost every building in the city . Japan Refused to Surrender.
