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After Germany invades Poland, France and Great Britain go to war with Germany.
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Denmark falls in the first four hours, while Norway surrenders after two months.
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Benito Mussolini's Italian forces attack France from the south.
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After Dunkirk, the resistance from France begins to weaken, and Germany had taken Paris.
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When Germany beats France Britain becomes more involved, and the Battle of Britain begins.
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Germans bombed British airfields and aircraft factories. Later they targeted London to break British morale, but the British did not waver.
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Hitler invaded both Yugoslavia and Greece. Yugoslavia fell in 11 days, while Greece fell in 17.
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The British resist the German Bombings. Resulting from that the Germans give up showing the world Hitler's attacks could be blocked.
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The German army invades the Soviet Union. The German military and police authorities wanted to wage a war against the Jews of the Soviet Union,
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A German U-boat fired at a U.S. destroyer, causing Roosevelt to have navy commanders shoot German submarines. Making them slowly join the war, but not fully. Japan was responsible for the U.S. coming into the war.
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The Germans put Leningrad attack and wiped out their food supply. They began eating cattle and horse feed, cats, dogs, cows, and rats. Even though about a million people died the city refused to fall.
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The Nazi's drive on the capitol, which results in nothing but the lives of 500,000 German lives.
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A surprise military attack by the Japanese towards the United States at Pearl Harbor. This caused the U.S. to join the war.
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A back and forth battle between the British and Afrika Korps general, Erwin Rommel ends by June, 1942 with a tough loss for the allies.
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Allies defeat Japan at Battle of Midway. This is Japan's 1st major defeat in WWII
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When Rommel started to retreat west, the allies took full advantage of their weakness and invaded Morocco and Algeria.
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Over 90,000 German troops at Stalingrad surrender to the Soviets. It is a significant turning point in the war against Germany.
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The Germans get defeated at Stalingrad. It is big turning point in the war.
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The allies defeat Japan at Guadalcanal.
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The United States started producing things like machine guns, boots, tanks, and armor-piercing shells. This gave over 17 milllion americans jobs in the war industry.
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American, British, and Canadian forces liberated France
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Japan made a plan to halt the allied advance by destroying the Americans, and preventing the allies from giving their troops the supplies they needed. Which they fail at accomplishing
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Victory day in Europe when the Germans surrendered.
