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Britain had begun re-arming and a highly secret radar early warning system
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Hitler and Stalin signed a non-aggression pact which included secret clauses for the division of Poland
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there was no military action Sept 1939-May 1940
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He marched into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country
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invaded Poland
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declared war on Germany
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Hitler invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway to safeguard supply routes of Swedish ore
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Italian forces in North Africa were routed by the British led by General Wavell
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Hitler launched this blitzkrieg (lightning war) against Holland and Belgium
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He resigned after pressure from Labour members
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The commander was forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk
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There motive to entering the war was the hope of rich pickings from the spoils of war
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10 July- 31 October 1940
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This pact of mutual alliance was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan
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German field Marshall Erwin Rommel led the axis powers back to North Africa
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He sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia
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Japanese attacked the US pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor
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They declare war
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captured from British
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The US defeated the Japanese navy
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General Alex was given a hand-written directive
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British and American forces landed in NW of Africa
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Russians won their first victory against Germany
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Montgomery attacked the German-Italian army in North Africa
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British and US forces invaded
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The allied troops had won the island
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Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met to co-ordinate plans for a simultaneous squeeze on Germany
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British and American forces managed to defeat the Axis powers
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Mussolini had been thrown out of office and the new government of Italy surrendered
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The siege of Leningrad was lifted by the Soviet army
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The allies were able to liberate Rome from the Germans
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British forces evicted the Japanese from Burma
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Germany launched its final defensive through the Ardennes region of Belgium
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Allies launched an attack on Germany's forces 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 three people in London
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The allies crossed the Rhine while Soviet forces were approaching Berlin from the East
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Died
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The Russians reached Berlin shortly before the US forces
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Italian partisans captured Mussolini and executed him
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He committed suicide in his bombproof shelter with his wife
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German forces in Italy surrendered to the Allies
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German forces in north west Germany, Holland, and Denmark surrendered to Montgomery on Luneburg Health
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Hitler's successor, Admiral Donitz, offered an unconditional surrender to the allies
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Victory in Europe was celebrated
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He lost election to Clement Atlee's Labour Party
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The Japanese generals refused to surrender. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island
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Russia declared war on Japan and invaded Japanese-ruled Manchuria
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The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Nagasaki as the Japanese had not surrendered following Hiroshima
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The Japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allies ending the second world war
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US General, Douglas MacArthur, accepted Japan's surrender thus formally ending the second world war