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On August 23, 1939 a nonaggression act was signed with the Soviet Union, because the Germans believe they lost World War One based on the fact that they had to fight two fronts.
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On September 1 Germany annexed Danzig, invaded Poland which started the war.
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On May 13, 1940 Germans surprise attack on the Ardennes forest, north of the Magiot line. They ran through the English channel cutting off supply lines to the french and British.
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British troops landed in Norway. They could not protect the Norwegians. British troops evacuated in May. Norway fell on June 9,1940.
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The Franco-German armistice was signed on June 22, 1940 in the same railway car the Germans signed the armistice in World War One.
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On June 22, Germany invaded the Soviet which caused Romania,Finland,Hungary,and Italy to declare war of Russia. Britain aided the Soviet Union.
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On December 7 the Japanese launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States Navy and Military were not ready.
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On December 11, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States, but the United States voted on Declarations.
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On April 18, 1942 a small group of planes bombed Tokyo to give them a preview of things to come.
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On November 6, 1942 the British drove the Axis Powers out of Egypt.
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On July 23, 1943 Benito Mussolini was forced to resign and was arrested.
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Premier Badoglio surrenders his army unconditionally on September 8. This took Italy out of the war.
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During the morning of June 6 an invasion fleet of 7,000 ships landed on Normandy beaches. Airborne divisions dropped behind the German lines into the heart of France. These divisions included Canadian, American, and British troops.
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The Allies pushed inland, and Paris fell to the Allies on August 25.
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On May 4, 1945 General Bernard Montgomery received the surrender from the Germans in Netherlands, Denmark, and northwestern Germany.
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Mussolini was caught and shot on April 28. The next day the Germans in Italy surrendered unconditionally.
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So Hitler would not be captured by the Soviets Hitler "committed suicide" on of April 30. There is no proof of this, it is still good that he was gone and not coming back.
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On May 8 Stalin, Churchill, and Harry S. Truman announced that General Wilhelm Keitel had surrendered unconditionally. Now all attention turned to the Eastern Front.
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On August 6 a B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, destroying more than half of the city, and destroying a major munitions center.
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On September 2, 1945 , Japan surrendered on the battleship Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay.