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This is the start of the war.
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It declared a full scale European war. Before this Germany had already invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia without starting a war because nobody wanted to repeat what happened in WW1. Everybody thought they could avoid war by giving Hitler the land but he did not settle for just one country. Two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany. The invasion last from the first of September to the sixth of October.
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any people were shocked that Canada entered the war again. There was no celebration like there was in the First World War. It was important for them to join because they had the most training in the air force which was later needed.
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Germany invades France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
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France surrenders to Germany
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This is the date the Battle of Britain begins. If the British had not succeeded, the war would have been over and Germany would have won. It was the first loss for Germany after a string of victories. It also stopped Germany's invasion of England. It It ended on 31 October 1940. This was a major turning point in the war.
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It broke the non-aggressive pact Germany had with the soviet union. They took the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, completely by surprise. They had been defeated by Britain and Hitler always had his eyes on Russian. This was said to be another turnIng point in the war.
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It officially entered the US into the war. Japan needed Hawaii to be closer to the Mainland. They also wanted to sink their fleet to reduce their chances of attacking Japan and midway. They did manage to sink most of it but it did not stop them from attacking Midway.
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Germany and Italy declare war on the United States; then the United States declares war on Germany and Italy.
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This is when the first plan was formed. These plans lead to terrible things so it was indeed important but not in a good way. The holocaust was Hitler’s way to punish the Jews for supposedly being at fault for the loss of the First World War. Many people died and only few survived.
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he Japanese and the US battling for a little island between the US Hawaii and Japan called midway. The US wanted it because they couldn’t fly directly from one mainland to the other, they had to refuel somewhere. After they attacked Pearl Harbor, they had limited fighting force but they still succeeded.
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The Canadians had trained for 3 years and then they had to go to the raid and it was a disaster. They had no protection so the german artillery had already wiped a lot of them out already. This was important because it was the first major defeat for them.
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The Casablanca Conference begins
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins
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This is when the Tehran Conference begins
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The Allies pushed into Europe on the eastern front. The Canadians were the only ones to accomplish their missions. It was to advance across the beach and get through German lines. It was called D-day as a code name. The D stood for nothing.
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This is the day the Battle of the Philippine Sea
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This is when the battle of Leyte Gulf
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The Battle of Bulge begins
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This is when the start of the Battle of Berlin
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Mussolini in hanged by Italian partisans
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Hitler committed suicide shortly before the end of the battle of Britain. It caused most of Europe to surrender and ended the holocaust.
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It rapidly forced Japan to surrender. So far they are the only nuclear weapons used to date. It killed lots and lots of people.
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The reason this atomic bomb hit Nagasaki is for the same reason as the first atomic bomb. It made the Japan push to surrender.
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This date is important because it set an end to all the terrors of the World War 2.
