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Germany invades Poland
Who: Germany and Poland
Why: to regain lost territory and rule Poland
Where: Poland
What: Germany invades Poland -
Battle of Britain
Who: Hitler and Britain
Why: take over Britain
Where: South-east England
What: Hitler wanted to land 160,000 German soldiers along a 40 mile stretch of England -
Lend-Lease Act Signed
Who: Franklin D Roosevelt signed it
Where: Money went to 38 different countries
What: legislation gave Franklin Roosevelt power to sell, transfer, exchange, lend equipment to any country to help defend itself
Why: to help defend country against the Axis powers -
Germany declares war on the United States
Who: Germany, Italy, and United States
Why: Beginning of WW2
Where: America
What: Germany wants more territory and starts WW2 -
Battle of El Alamein
Who: Auchinleck and Rommel
Why: led to the retreat of Afrika Korps and the German Surrender
Where: Egypt What: Fought between 2commanders -
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Battle of Stalingrad
Who: Germany and Stalingrad
Why: Turning point in WW2
What: Germany and its Allies fought Soviet Union for control of city of Stalingrad -
Allies land in Italy
Who: Germans, Italy, and Allied Powers
Why: Wasn’t what Hitler planned would happen
Where: Salerno
What: Hitler surprise Attacks Allies -
D-Day Invasion
Who: Europe, Allie Powers and Germany and France
Why: Allied powers began to take back the countries Germany occupied
Where: France
What: Allie powers invade Nazi-occupied Europe -
Battle of the Bulge
Who: Hitler and Allie powers
Why: Hitler’s success only lasted 2 days
Where: on the front
When: December 16th 1944
What: Hitler wanted to break up Allie powers -
Yalta Conference
Who: Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt
Why: War meeting
Where: Yalta in the Crimea
What: Wanted to capture Berlin -
Franklin Roosevelt dies
Who: Franklin D Roosevelt
Why: He didn’t get to see world out of depression
Where: Warm Springs, Georgia
What: Roosevelt dies -
Hitler Commits suicide
Who: Hitler
Why: Germany was getting defeated again
Where: Berlin in the bunker
What: Hitler Dies -
Germany surrenders
Who: Germany
Why: The Allies won the war
Where: surrender was signed in Rheims
What: Germany surrenders to Allies.
