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Hitler invades his home country of Austria and clams he is uniting them contries.
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Hitler, chamberlain, daladier of France, and Mussolini net in Munich and agreed that Hitler should have the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia.
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Despite assurances given to him by the treaty of Munich, Hitler marched into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country.
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Britain began re-arming and a highly secret warning system was installed along the east coast.
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Hitler and Stalin signed a non-agression pact which included secret clauses for the division of Poland.
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Adolf Hitler Invaded Poland
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Britain and France declared war in Germany
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The months following Britain’s declaration of war because Britain saw no military action.
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Hitler invaded and occupied Denmark and a Norway to safeguard supply routes of Swedish ore and also to establish Norwegian base from which to break the British a naval blockade on Germany
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4 phases
1) bombers attack British ports
2) bombing concentrated in RAF airfields and attacks on shipping continued
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Italian forces in North Africa were routed by the British led by General Wavell
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Hitler launched his lightning war against Holland and Belgium
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Neville Chamberlain resigned after pressure from Labor members for a more active prosecution of the war and Winston Churchill became the new head of the wartime coalition government
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The British commander-in-chief had been forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk. The troops waited under fire to be taken of the beaches. A call went out to all owners of sea worthy vessels.
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Italy’s motive was the hope of rich pickings from the spoils of war.
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The French signs armistice with Germany taking France which had been devastated out of the was and into German occupation
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This pact of mutual alliance was signed by Germany, Italy and Japan
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German and Italy troops attacked Yugoslavia, Greece and the Island of Crete. German field Marshall Erwin Rommel led the axis powers back to North Africa
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Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia. Russians were taken by surprise as they had signed a treaty with German in 1939. USA offered aid to USSR
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The Japanese attaches US pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor Hawaii
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Britain and the US decalred war on Japan
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The Japanese captured Singapore from the British taking some 60,000 prisoners.
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The USA defeated the Japanese navy at the battle of Midway. Following this victory, the US navy was able to push the Japanese back
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General Alexander was given a hand written directive from Churchill ordering that his main directive was to be the destruction of the German-Italian arny commanded by Field-Marshall Rommel together with all its supplies and establishments in egypt and Libya
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The Russians won thier first victory against Germany
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British and American forces under the command of General Dwight Eisenhower landed in the NW of Africa and assumed control of French Morocco and Algeria. They gradually closed in on the Germans
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Montegomery attacked German-Italian army in North Africa with a massive bombardment followed by an armoured attack
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The allied troops invaded Sicily
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The allied troops had won the island of Sicily
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Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met to co-ordinate plans for a stimulaneous squeeze in Germany.
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The British and American forces managed to defeat the Axis forces in North Africa
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Mussolini has been thrown out of office and the new government of Italy surrendered to the British and USA troops.
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The siege of Linengrad was lifted by the Soviet Union
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It was just now the the allies were able to liberate Rome from the Germans
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British forces under German slim with help from gurreilla- fighting Chindits led by Orde Wingate.
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Germany launched its final defensive through the Ardennes region of Belgium
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The allied attacked Germany in Normandy, western France.
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The French capital of Paris was liberated from the Germans
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The first v2 flying bombs killed 3 people in London
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The allies crossed the Rhine while Soviet Union forces were approaching Berlin from the west
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President Roosevelt deid after his sueccessfull terms.
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The Russians reached Berlin shortly before the US forces.
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Italian partisans captured and executed Mussolini
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Hitler commuted suicide in his bombshelter together with his mistress Eva who at last minuet became his wife
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German forces in Italy surrender to the Allies
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German forces in west Germany, Holland, and Denmark surrender. Donitz tried to reach an agreement to surrender but continue to fight without Russia but was denied
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Hitlers successor offered unconditional surrender to the Allies
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Victory in Europe was celebrated
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Churchill lost election to clement atlee’s labor party
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The Japanese generals refused to surrender. The US dropped and atomic bomb.
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Russia declared war on japan and invaded Manchuria
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The US dropped another bomb because Japanese had still not surrendered
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The Japanese unconditionally surrender to the Allies ending the Second World War
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US general Douglas MacArthur accepted Japans surrender ending the Second World War officially