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oviet troops invade Finland in order to control more land. This resulted in the League of Nations expelling them from the League on 14 December 1939. This also ended up with a Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.
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Mussolini and Hitler teamed up in order to try to take down Britain and France. Hitler has also gave support to Mussolini that helped him become the leader of Italy.
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After the "phony war" where nothing happened for a period of time. Germany then uses their blitzkrieg against Netherlands and Belgium. This surprise attack was extremely efficient as Germany used a majority of it's army to catch their enemy off guard.
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Bnito Mussolini the dictator of Italy decides to declare war on Britain and France shortly after Germany takes over Paris. However Italy only joined long after Hitler asked him to
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German troops entered the capitol of France without any resistance. Allied troops retreated to prevent a violent and the destruction of Paris. Which is why the French's military governor declared Paris to be an open town.
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The start of trainning of the air force. Which trained over 131,500 personnel's. 1
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During the night of August 25th, 95 aircraft were dispatched to bomb Tempelhof Airport near the center of Berlin and Siemensstadt. These bombings caused Hitler to swtich from targetting Birith airfields, defenceses to British cities.
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave orders to attack any German or Italian vessels found in U.S. defensive waters. This is because U.S. had not officially entered World War II at this time
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The attack was in violation of international law as Japan had not declared war against the British Empire. Japan was met with troops in Hongkong that consisted of people from Britain, Canada and Indians. However this colony still fell despite the amount of troops defending it.
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The invasion of the Phillippines was to prevent the use of the Philippines as an advance base of operations by America. They also wanted To acquire staging areas and supply bases to enhance operations against the Netherlands East Indies.
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6000 Allied trooops whom were mostly Canadians attacked the northern coast of France. This raid was to gather information or seizing a major port. However the battle was incredible loss for the Allied forces.
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Forces representing Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the U.S. capture the southeastern tip of New Guinea from Japanese troops, in an attempt to protect Australia from a Japanese invasion.
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The Germans had hoped to weaken the Soviet's offensive potential in the summer of 1943 by cutting off a large number of forces that they anticipated would be in the Kursk salient. However the Soviet had an early notice of this attack by the British Intelligence service, so they built a defence in depth designed to wear down the German panzer spearheads.
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This operation followed after capturing Sicily back, The main invasion force landed around Salerno on the western coast in Operation Avalanche. The Allied forces was victorious in this battle. 7
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Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The allied forces won the battle while Canadian troops secured the beaches in less than a week.
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German rockets rained down London a week after D-Day. 100 V-1s fell every hour on London and over 6000 people died with more than 17,000 injured. However they eventually destroyed all the launch sites so the bombings stopped.
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The cease fire between these two countries had requirements that German troops be removed from Finland and that part of the Finland military had to be demobilized.
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The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division's 5th Brigade worked on clearing the coast of Dieppe and soon cleared the Dunkirk garrison which had 10 thousand German troops defending it. 6
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During the clearing of the coast of Dieppe, Canadian troops defeated German troops in outposts in these locations and liberated them on this day. 7
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During the clearing of the coast of Dieppe, Canadian troops defeated German troops in outposts in this location and liberated them on this day. 8
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The American and filipino tries to expel the imperialistic Japanese forces from the Philippines. At this point the Japanese had already taken over more than half of the country.
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During the battle of Scheldt, on this day, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division secured the south shore of the scheldt in order to liberate the Netherlands. 10
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First Canadian Army attempts to force back the German forces. The army was in charge for attacking over inundated ground in the first phase in Operation Veritable. 9
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American and British planes attacked Dresden by dropping more than 3900 tons of bombs. During this attack more than 25,000 people died, and 1600 acres of land was destroyed.
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This was debatably when the war ended. The U.S over powerd the japanese then turned all focus onto Hitler and the Nazis
