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Hitler annexed Austria, he tries to unify all German-speaking people.
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Despite the assurances given by Hitler in the Treaty of Munich, he marched into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country.
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Britain had begun re-arming and a highly secret radar early warning system was installed along the east coast.
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Hitler and Stalin signed a non-aggression pact which included secret clauses for the division of Poland
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Adolf Hitler invades Poland
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Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier, and Mussolini met in Munich and agreed that Hitler should have the Sudetanland of Czechoslovakia.
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The months following Britain’s declaration of war are reffered to as the “phoney war” because Britain saw no military action. War ended in May.
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Hitler invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway to safeguard supply routes of Swedish ore and also to establish a Norwegian base from which to break the Beitish naval blokade on Germany. Ended in May
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Italian forces in North Africa were routed by the British led by General Wacell.
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Hitler launched his blitzkrieg against Holland and Belgium. Rotterdam was bombed almost to extinction.
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Neville Chamberlain resigned after pressure from Labour members for a more active prosection of the ar and Winston Churchill became the new head of the wartime coalition government.
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British Commander, General Gort, has been forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk.
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Italy’s motive for entering the war was the hope of rich pickings from the spoils of war.
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The French, Marshall Petain, signed an armistice with Germany taking France, which had been devastated, out of the war and into German occupation.
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This pact of mutual alliance was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Hitler sends Luffwaffe. Attacks conventrated on RAF airfields. The Blitz. Night bombing. Ends October.
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German and Italian troops attacked Yugoslavia, Greese and the island of crete. German field Marshal Erwin Rommel led the axis powers back to North Africa.
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Soldiers and tanks sent to Russia. Russia surprised because they had signed a treaty. USA offers aid to the USSR.
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Britain and the US declare was on Japan.
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The USA defeated the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway. Following this victory, the US navy was able to push the Japanese back.
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General Alexander was given a hand-written directive from Churchill ordering thatvhis main directive was to be the destruction of the German-Italian army commanded by Field-Marshall Rommell together with all its supplies and establishments in Egypt and Lybia.
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Russians won against Germany at this battle for the first time.
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Eisenhower and his troops assume comtrol of French Morocco and Algeria.
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Montgomery attacked the German-Italian army in North Africa.
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The Japanese, who were already waging war against the Chinese, attacked the Us pacific fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, as a preliminary to taking British, French, and Dutch colonish in South East Asia.
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British and US forces invaded Sicily.
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Allied toops win the island of Sicily.
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Stalin, Roosavelt, and Churchhill meet to coordinate plans for a simultaneous squeeze of Germany.
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The British and American forces manage to defeat the Axis forces in N Africa
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Mussolini had been thrown out of office and the new gov of Italy surrendered
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The siege of Leningrad was lifted by the Soviet army.
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Allies able to liberate Rome from the Germans.
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British forces under General Slim evicted the Japanese from Burma
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Germany launches final defense in Belgium, but they were beaten back by the allies.
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Allies attack German foces in Normandy.
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Paris liberated from the Germans.
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The first V2 flying bomb killed three people in London.
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The allies crossed Rhine while Soviet forces were approaching Berlin from the east.
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Succeeded by President Truman.
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Russians reach Beelin shortly before the US.
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Itallian partisans capture him and kill him.
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He kills himself
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they surrender to the allies.
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Admiral Donits tries to reach and agreement to surrender but continued to fight Russians so his request was refused
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Revises his surrender to be unconditional
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Victory in Europe was celebrated.
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he looses the election
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Japanese generals refused to surrender.
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Russia invades Japanese ruled Manchuria
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Japanese hadnt surrendered post Hiroshima
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The Japanese unconditionally surrender to the allies ending WWII
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US General, Douglas MacArthur, accepted Japan’s surrender thus formally ending the second World War.