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Hitler re-militarizes the Rhineland
Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by sending the German troops to take the Rhineland. After World War I, France asked for the creation of the Rhineland as a buffer between France and Germany.
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Hitler invades Czechoslovakia(Sudentenland)
To further expand the Germany's territory, Hitler decides to invade Czechoslovakia. 3 million Germans lived in Sudetenland and wanted the valuable resources. France and Britain promised to protect the Czechoslovakians, but gave Hitler Czechoslovakia to avoid war.
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Hitler reunites Germany with Austria (Anschluss)
Hitler wanted to unite Germany with the territory that was lost in the Treaty of Versailles. Austria was the first country Hitler took back.
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Hitler, Poland, and the Blitzkrieg
Hitler sets his eyes on Poland, after invading Czechoslovakia. The non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin states that the two countries do not attack each other and allowed them to split Poland into two. This stopped the chance of Hitler and Germany fighting a two-front war not likely. Hitler invades Poland with a new military strategy called the Blitzkrieg (lightening war), this strategy allowed Germany to take the enemy by surprise and quickly defeat them.
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Hitler Takes France
After the forceful taking of Poland, Britain, and France realized they need to go to war. September 3rd, 1940 Britain, and France declared war on Germany, the first few months after there was no fighting. Hitler took his Blitzkrieg through Belgium and quickly captured Paris. France fell into Hitlers hands in less than a month.
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Battle of Britain
After invading France, Hitler tries to capture Europe. Hitler planned to soften Britain by bombing the capital, London, continuously bombing them for 11 months. This demoralized the English, but Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspired hit citizens and soldiers, assuering them that if Gb upholds its duty to fight, "men will still say, 'This was thier finest hour.' "
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Lend-Lease Act
The second altered Neutrality Act that tried to help the warring Allied Powers, the Lend-Lease Act alllowed the U.S . -
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Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.
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Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
Japan tries to expand its influence all over Asia, but the United States stood in the way. FDR began to freeze Japanese assets and stopped exporting oil to Japan. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) to cripple the Pacific Fleet, in about 2 hours, 2,403 sailors died and 21 battleships were sunk or damaged (almost the entire fleet). FDR declares December 7, 1941 , a date that will live in infamy". -
Germany declares War
Four days after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the States. On December 8, the US declared war on Japan. The US's first target was Germany in Europe. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
Successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad, U.S.S.R., during World War II. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. Hitler’s goal was to eliminate Soviet forces in the south, secure the region’s economic resources, and then wheel his armies either north to Moscow. The city was completely destroyed and 1.1 million soviet soldiers parished.
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Bataan Death March
After U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese, the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. Thousands perished.
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US defeats Japan in Midway
Six months after PH, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to advances in code-breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s ambush of its few aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. An important turning point in the Pacific, the victory allowed the US and its allies to move into an offensive position.
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Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. By May 16, 1943, the Germans had crushed the uprising and left the ghetto area in ruins. Surviving ghetto residents were deported to concentration camps or killing centers. Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto.
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D-Day Invasion of Normandy
Codenamed Operation Overlord, led by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring, the Allies had defeated the Germans.
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Battle of the Bulge
Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe. American units fought desperate battles, as the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes in an attempt to secure bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a large bulge. Lieutenant General Patton’s successful maneuvering of the army to Bastogne proved vital to the Allied defense, leading to the neutralization of the German last offensive compain .
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Battle of Iwo JIma
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Jap army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground. Despite the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces and the battle earned a place with the publication of a photograph showing the US flag being raised in victory.
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Liberation!
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. They entered the Majdanek camp in Poland and later overran several other killing centers. They entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. The Germans had been forced to leave these prisoners behind in their hasty retreat from the camp. British, Canadian, American and French troops also freed prisoners from the camps.
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US Makes Fried Rice (Japan Bombings)
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over Hiroshima. It wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; thousands more would later die of radiation. 3 days later, another A-bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing 40,000 people. Japan’s Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki#
