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Hitler followed his plan and attempted to unify all German-speaking people. First, he annexed Austria and demanded the liberation of German people in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
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Hitler, Munich, Daladier and Mussolini met in Munich and agreed that Hitler should have the Sudetenland. The Czechs were not represented in the meeting and were forced to surrender the land.
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Even though Hitler gave assurance to Czechoslovakia that he wouldn't invade them, he went and did it anyway
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Britain took Poland under their wing and gave them early-warning radar as well as weapons to defend against the Fuhrer
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Hitler and Stalin sign a non-aggression pact which included secretive clauses regarding the division of Poland
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Hitler invaded Poland, there's not much else to it than that10
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Neville Chamberlain broadcast to the entire country that they were officially at war against Germany
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People saw no military action from Britain which led them to call it the "Phoney War"
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Hitler came through to cut off Swedish ore supply routes and establish a Norwegian base from which he could break through the British Naval Blocade
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General Wavell defeated the Italian army
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Neville Chamberlain resigned and Winston Churchill came to power
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An insane rescue mission that resulted in the rescue of 338,000 men
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Italy enters the war to pick at the spoils of war
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This resulted in France being taken out of the war and taken over by Germany
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The raids lasted up till Halloween night
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This pact of mutual alliance was signed by Germany, Italy and Japan
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German field Marshall Erwin Romemel led the axis powers back to North Africa after attacking Yugoslavia and Crete
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Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia despite the treaty they had signed in 1939
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The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet as a preliminary to taking British, French and Dutch colonies
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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 and pushed them back
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The campaign’s commander was changed from Alexander to Montgomery
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Russia’s first victory against Germany
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British and American forces gradually assumed control of French Morocco and Algeria. They closed in on the Germans here
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Montgomery chased the German-Italian army 1500 miles across the desert
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Allied troops won Island of Sicily
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Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met, and the fate of post-war Europe was decided
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The British and American forces managed to defeat the Axis forces in North Africa
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Mussolini was thrown out and hanged. The new government surrendered to the allies.
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The siege of Leningrad was lifted by the Soviet Army
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Allies were able to liberate Rome from Germany
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British forces with the help from guerrilla-fighting Chindits evicted the Japanese from Burma
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Germany launched its final defensive through Ardennes region of Belgium. Were beaten back by allies
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Allies launched an attack on Germany’s forces in Normandy, Western France
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The French Capital was freed from German control
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Three people were killed by these in London
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Allies crossed the Rhine while soviet forces approached Belgium from the East
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Russians beat US to Berlin by a small margin
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He was hanged outside of a gas station by his own people
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Europe’s day of victory
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Japanese Generals refused to surrender, so we gave them a reason to
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Invaded Manchuria
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The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Nagasaki as the Japanese didn’t learn their lesson the first time.
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Unconditional surrender to allies, ending WWII
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This formally ended WWII
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Hitler launched his lightning war against Holland and Belgium