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In winter 1939-1940, Soviets seized 4 countries, including Estonia and Latvia, Germany seized over 4 in Spring including Belgium and Denmark.
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In May 1940 Germany invaded France, Britain tried to help France but Germany pushed both west, Allies tried rescuing their soldiers on Dunkirk. -
On June 22 of 1940, the French government surrendered to Germany, which left Great Britain alone to fight against Germany. -
In 1940 Hitler attacked Britain's air force hoping to conquer them and lost, this was called the Battle of Britain. -
In 1940 Hitler realized the British air force was stronger than him, so he decided to invade Britain. -
In 1940 Hitler's empire kept growing, he decided to invade the URSS, turning against Stalin, and succeeded at first, but was stopped by the Winter. -
By 1940 Japan was expanding its control and bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, seeking to take control of US colonies and the Philippines, US declared war on them in consequence, the Axis then declared it against the US.
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Hitler wanted to get rid of the Jews, and in 1942 he decided to kill all of them in what we know as the Holocaust. -
Governments of the German empire helped to carry out the Holocaust, they jammed people into freight cars which took them to concentration camps in Eastern Europe. When they arrived at the camp, the weakest were killed in gas chambers straight away and the rest were taken to barracks and were used for work in factories and farms. As 12 million people died in the Holocaust, the Allies held trials for war crimes against Germany after the war, after seeing what happened in the camps. -
The opposing power to the Axis were the Allies, the main were the US, Great Britain, France, among others. The Allies agreed to go first against Germany and then after Japan. Allies invaded North Africa in November 1942 and by May 1943 they defeated Germany there. After that, they invaded Italy, which Germany could not defend and Italy surrendered in May 1945, and Mussolini was killed.
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In early 1942 Japan had taken European colonies in Asia and the western Pacific and the Allies fought them in the Pacific at the same time they kept fighting with Hitler. By October 1944 Allies land forces seized control over the Solomon Islands and New Guinea, and by March 1945 Manila, the capital of the Philippines but fighting there stopped when the war ended. By April 1945 Japanese emperor was ready to surrender but military leaders refused.
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In 1944 Allies crossed the English Channel to land on French shores in the D-Day invasion, they broke and pushed German lines. -
By April 1945 the Germans that remained were in between Allied armies in the west and by Soviets in the east, they pushed the Germans out and occupied their areas themselves. -
The US president Franklin Roosevelt died on April 12 of 1945, which lead to vice president Harry Truman becoming the president and got knowledge about the atomic bomb, a project which Roosevelt developed since 1941, a project in which over 600,000 people worked on. -
In Summer 1945, Japan still refused to surrender so the US dropped an Atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6. -
On August 9, 1945, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki after Japan refused again to surrender. -
After receiving 2 atomic bombs, Japan finally surrendered on August 14 of 1945. -
Hitler killed himself on April 30, 1945, and on May 7 of the same year, Germany surrendered, which ended the war in Europe.