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germany announces war on astruia
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germany military mobilizes
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british prime minister champirlan apperars
Leaders of Britain, France, Nazi Germany, and Italy meet at the Munich Convention. In a profound act of capitulation, the delegates deliver the Sudetenland into Adolf Hitler's hands. Neither Russia nor Czechoslovakia are invited to Munich. Bristish Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returns to England following his role in the disastrous Munich Agreement claiming to have achieved "peace in our time." -
germany troops occupy the sudentland
Nazi German troops march into the Sudetenland. Without the support of their alleged allies, France and Britain, the Czechoslovakians are powerless against Adolf Hitler's army. -
the night of broken glass
Nazi-led mobs engage in a night of terror against Nazi Germany's and Austria's Jewish population, destroying more than 1,000 shops and synagogues, arresting 30,000, and killing nearly 40. The action will become known as Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). -
hitler threantens the jews
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nazi take czechoslovakia
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spanish civil war ends
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nazis sigh pack of steal with italy
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nazis and soviets sign pact
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briten and poland sign treaty
Because the state of Czechoslovakia was not invited to the conference, it considered itself to have been betrayed by the United Kingdom and France, -
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finland signs a peace treaty with soviets
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finland signs a peace treaty with soviets
The Finnish government received the first tentative peace conditions from the Soviet Union (through Stockholm) on 31 January. Until then, the Red Army had fought to occupy all of Finland. By this point, the regime was prepared to temper its claims. The demands were that Finland cede the Karelian Isthmus, including the city of Viipuri, and Finland's shore of Lake Ladoga. The Hanko Peninsula was to be leased to the Soviet Union for 30 years. -
germans bomb scapa flow navel base
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nazis invade denmark and norway
German invasion of Denmark (1940) The German invasion of Denmark was the fighting that followed the German army crossing the Danish border on 9 April 1940 by land, sea and air. -
holland surrenders to nazis
Germany invaded Holland on May 10th 1940. The invasion, based on blitzkrieg, was swift and devastating. Holland surrendered just six days later as her military had been unable to cope with the speed of blitzkrieg. Fear was also great – Rotterdam had been severely damaged by bombing. Could the same happen to Amsterdam? -
beliguim surrenders to nazis
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raitoning begins in britien
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british forces advance into italy somiland in east africa
t is estimated that between September 1943 and April 1945, some 60,000-70,000 Allied and 60,000-150,000 German soldiers died in Italy -
british soldiers arrive in greece
In October 1940, Mussolini’s army, already occupying Albania, invaded Greece in what proved to be a disastrous military campaign for the Duce’s forces. Mussolini surprised everyone with this move against Greece, but he was not to be upstaged by recent Nazi conquests. According to Hitler, who was stunned by a move that he knew would be a strategic blunder, Mussolini should have concentrated on North Africa by continuing the advance into Egypt. The Italians paid for Mussolini’s hubris, as the Gree -
nazis invade greece
At the time of the German invasion, Greece was at war with Fascist Italy, following the Italian invasion on 28 October 1940. The Greeks joined the Allies and defeated the initial Italian attack and the counter-attack of March 1941. When Operation Marita began on 6 April, the bulk of the Greek Army was on the Greek border with Albania, then a protectorate of Italy, from which the Italian troops had attacked. -
greece surrenders to nazis
This explanation for Germany's calamitous defeat by the Soviet Union has been refuted by the majority of historians, who have accused Hitler of trying to deflect blame for his country's defeat from himself to his ally, Italy.[20] It nevertheless had serious consequences for the Axis war effort in the North African theatre. -
Germans cross the River Dnieper in the Ukraine
The Battle of the Dnieper was a military campaign that took place in 1943 on the Eastern Front of World War II. It was one of the largest operations in World War II, involving almost 4,000,000 troops on both sides and stretching on a 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) long front.[1] During its four-month duration, the eastern bank of the Dnieper was recovered from German forces by five of the Red Army's fronts, which conducted several assault river crossings to establish several lodgements on the western -
German air raids begin against cathedral cities in Britain
On March 28 of the same year, 234 British bombers struck the German port of Lubeck, an industrial town of only “moderate importance.” The attack was ordered (according to Sir Arthur Harris, head of British Bomber Command) as more of a morale booster for British flyers than anything else, but the destruction wreaked on Lubeck was significant: Two thousand buildings were totaled, 312 German civilians were killed, and 15,000 Germans were left homeless. -
Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.
Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941, and Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazi "Final Solution to the Jewish question". From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe, where they were killed with the pesticide Zyklon B. At least 1.1 million prisoners died at -
Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.
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Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA.
The Germans’ most formidable naval weapon was the U-boat, a submarine far more sophisticated than those built by other nations at the time. The typical U-boat was 214 feet long, carried 35 men and 12 torpedoes, and could travel underwater for two hours at a time. In the first few years of World War I, the U-boats took a terrible toll on Allied shipping. -
British General Bernard Montgomery takes command of Eighth Army in North Africa.
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Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad.
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
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Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders in Munich.
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Montgomery's Eighth Army breaks through the Mareth Line in Tunisia.
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German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa.
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Soviet troops advance into Poland.
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Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea.
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Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome.
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Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails.
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Germans begin a major counter-attack toward Avranches.
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U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies link up after a month long separation during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland.
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Last German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary.
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oviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg
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Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans; Allies take Venice.
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Hermann Göring commits suicide two hours before his scheduled execution.
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Emperor Hirohito addresses his subjects and tells them that he is not, contrary to popular belief, a divine being
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The United Nations Security Council convenes in London to agree on procedural rules for the international body.
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The International Atomic Energy Commission is established to help regulate emerging nuclear weapons technology.
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Nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh is elected president of Vietnam
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◦Denmark issues three postage stamps in memory of the struggle for liberty and second anniversary of the liberation of the country
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