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Germany’s Lightning Attack. Hitler moved really quickly to conquer Poland. At the same time, aircraft began bombing war to polands capital, Warsaw.
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France and Great Britain declared war on Germany. Poland had less time to prepare with a military response because they were being attacked.
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Rommel’s Afrika Korps attacked. British forces attacked east to Tobruk, Libya.
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French leaders surrendered, because germans had taken over Paris.
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Avoiding the RAF attacks, Germans gave up daylight raids in favor of night bombing.
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Was the beginning of taking over russia. Operation barbarossa. Soviet union was not prepared for this attack, even though they had a really big army. Primary Source:
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Japanese overran Vietnam, Cambodia, and laos , Roosevelt cut off oil shipments to Japan.
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Japanese attacked the United States. Pearl Harbor. Within 2 hours had sunken 19 ships, 2300 killed and 1100 wounded. They accepted the request for war against Japan and its allied. Primary source:
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Final Solution Begins the SS army and Nazi Generals get together to decide what they were going to do to end the Jewish race. Primary source:
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United States wanted revenge for Pearl Harbor. Bombers under control of Colonel James H. They bombed tokyo and other japanese cities. Made them realize: Japan was vulnerable to attack. Primary Source:
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4 day war on air. Japanese against Americans on the pacific. Americans destroyed 332 japanese planes.
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US marines landed on Guadalcanal. They attacked and fought to have control over the land. After for 6 months until it was finally over Primary Source:
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Invasion began on Normandy, British, Americans, French and Canadian troops fought to get in 60-mile of the beach in Normandy. Germans hided behind very thick walls, but Americans kept attacking. Primary Source:
http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=N3mEH3ozXL0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=june+6+1944&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Nx0yVKaAJqjmiwLT7YFI&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=june%206%201944&f=false -
German tanks broke because of weak American defense. Caught off guard the allies pushed Germans back. Germans couldn’t retreat because their was no reinforcements available.
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions of the war and the postwar world. Primary source:
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Some 60,000 U.S. troops land on the island of Okinawa, launching one of the bloodiest battles on the Pacific war. Primary source:
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Germany signed a surrender contract, ending the Nazi German involvement in World War II. Primary source:
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the United States. Which killed a lot of japanese civilians. Primary source:
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Three days after the 1st bomb US threw the Second Atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Japan surrenders.
