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Germany breaks the agreements and invades Poland. France and Britain declare war on Germany soon after.
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Soviet Union launches invasion on Finland and takes it within 3 months.
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Winston Churchill is appointed to be Prime Minister.
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Germany invaded France and seemingly took it in no time. The French did not hardly put up a fight at all. France would be divided and occupied until the allied liberation in 1944.
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A battle in which the allied and axis powers went toe to toe in an air battle that lasted 3 months. A British victory proved to be a major turning point in the war.
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Allowed Britian and other countries to have our tanks on the deal that they would be payed for after the war.
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After the Italians failed to take over Greece and the Balkans, Germany intervened and killed them in a month.
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Also known as "Operation Barborossa," the German blitzkrieg on the Soviet Union was the largest land invasion in the history of warfare. The Germans and Soviets were "allies" before this event took place. This invasion would untimately lead to Germany's demise.
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Japanese launch suprise attack on U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor.
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Jews and other minorities were rounded up, put into concentration camps, and executed.
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Japanese citizens were sent to camps for the duration of WW2 because people feared they would be loyal to Japan.
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The first of many US victories in the Pacific front. Many call this the changing of the tide in the war.
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After a back and forth chase across the desert. The allies finally stopped a German advance in El Alamein which would eventually lead to a victory on the African front.
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Another US victory in a very brutal battle.
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It is among one of the bloodiest battles in history and was a turning point for the Soviets on the eastern front.
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Allies meet in Tehran to discuss the war. Mainly whether another front should be opened in Western Europe (France).
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The allied invasion of western France.
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Allies met to discuss post-war Europe and how everything was to be done with the war torn nations after the war was over.
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While at his house in Warm Springs, Ga, he died of a stroke.
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Mussolini was trying to escape north and was captured and executed. His body was then hung in the streets for everyone to see.
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Soviets were on the doorstep of Berlin. Hitler and his wife both commit suicide in his bunker.
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In my opinion, the Cold war started right after Hitler's death and the defeat of Germany. The Cold War was an arms build up between the US and USSR. The USSR would eventually collapse in 1991 and went back to being Russia. Luckily there was never really any war between the two as it surely would have led to the destruction of the planet.
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After WW2, leaders in the allied country came up with the United Nations. It was the less glitchy version of the League of Nations. It is a very powerful committee to this day.
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Allies meet after the European Front has finished and discuss the division of Germany
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In an effort to end the war, the US drops the new atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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After dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the US dropped one more on Nagasaki, ending the war.
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He would oversee the recovery of Japan after the war and sought social, political, and economic changes.
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Where war criminals were tried and convicted for their hanous acts during the war.
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Economic recovery in Europe supplied by the United States. To help rebuild.
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Allies decided to drop supplys in West Berlin since the Soviets had put a blockade on the city, demonstrating their dislike of the Deutsche Mark.
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Was created to keep people from fleeing into West Berlin. It also served as a idealogical divide between democracy and communism.
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Probably the closest the US and USSR got to nuclear. USSR tried to put missles in Cuba and the US did not take kindly to this.
