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Due to Germany's invasion of Poland, Britain declare war, and Australia is an ally of Britain meaning they also declared war.
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The Allies tried and failed to save Norway from conquest by the Axis powers when German attention turned north to Scandanavia.
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The battle of France, also known as the fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the low countries during WW2.
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Tens of thousands of Allied soldiers were evacuated from Dunkirk, France and lived to see another day.
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Significant turning point of WW2, ended when Germany's Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Airforce.
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Longest serving Australian Prime Minister of 16 years.
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British navy sank the German battleship Bismark in the North Atlantic near France.
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The seige of Tobruk lasted 241 days after Axis forces advanced through Cyrenaica from El Agheila in Operation Sonnenblume against the British Western Desert Force in Libya
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At 7.35am the Japanese Navy's first wave moves in as a complete suprise.
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Just before 8am hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbour.
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The United States declares was on Japan, entering WW2.
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It resulted in the capture of Singapore by the Japanese and the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.
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It was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia.
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The Japanese landed near Gona on the North Coast. During the next two days they drove PNG and australia over the mountains.
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The Battle of Coral Sea continued through to the 8th of May. It was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of WW2 between the imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the Us and Australia.
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Crucial and decisive battle in the pacific theater.
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Battle on the Eastern Front in which Nazi Germany and it's allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Starlingrad in Southern Russia.
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More then 600 Australians were killed and 1680 wounded. It was one of the most significant battles fought by Australians in WW2.
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The fighting there, against Japanese invasion force was perhaps the most significant battle fought by Australians in WW2.
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Was an Allied attack on the German-ocupied port of Dieppe.
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The British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign.
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Major battle that took place near the Egyptian railway.
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the allied invasion of Normandy.
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It was a major German offensive campaign launded through the defensely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium.
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The Soviet Army took the fight to German soil as Hitlers Empire collapsed around him.
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