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President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, as chancellor of Germany.
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Hitler annexed Austria then demanded the liberation of German people in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
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Stalin and Hitler sign a nonaggression pact which consisted of secret clauses for the division of Poland.
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Hitler threatened bombing Prague, unless he obtained from Hacha free passage for German troops into Czech borders
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Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to use the blitzkrieg strategy.
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Adolf Hitler invaded Poland.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany. Neville Chamberlain broadcasted that the country was at war.
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.Sept 1939-May 1940 Britain’s declaration of war are referred to as the ‘phoney war’ because Britain saw no military action.
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Hitler invades Norway and Denmark. To establish a Norwegian base from which to break the British naval blockade on Germany. Also to safeguard supply routes of Swedish ore.
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Hitler launched his blitzkrieg against Holland and Belgium.
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Chamberlain resigned after pressure from Labour members for a more active prosecution of the war.
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British commander-in-chief, General Gort, had been forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk.
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Italy entered the war on the side of the Axis powers. Italy is hoping that they get rich pickings from the spoils of war.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.
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Britain and the United States declared war on Japan.
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Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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The French capital of Paris was liberated from the Germans.
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The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
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the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki.
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The Japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allies ending the second world war.
