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Hitler sends Nazi troops to invade poland (aside from the portion given to russia...For Now) Pland is taken over and hitler sets his sites on another, Belgium
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France and Britain declare war on Germany two days after the invasion of Poland (figure to right is Chamberlain meeting with Hitler)
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Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain, and resumes the hostile action towards germany.
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German "Blitzkrieg" overwhelms Belgium, Holland and France. With fast guerilla tactics otherwise known as the Blitzkrieg or Lightning
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Hitler begins Operation Barbarossa - the invasion of Russia. Which fails horribly and Stalin becomes extremly aggrivated at the betrayal by Hitler
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, and the US enters the war. The three powers Russia Britan and the US Press on Germany
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British and Indian forces fight Japanese in Burma. Mandalay (Burmian City) was captured on 20th March 1945 by 19th Indian Division which marked the near end of the war.
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American naval victory at Battle of Midway, in June, marks turning point in Pacific War.
Mass murder of Jewish people at Auschwitz begins. -
Surrender at Stalingrad marks Germany's first major defeat.
Allied victory in Africa enables invasion of Italy to be launched. Italy surrenders, but Germany takes over the battle. -
D Day: The Allied invasion of France. Paris is liberated in August.
Guam liberated by the US Okinawa, and Iwo Jima bombed. -
Auschwitz liberated by Soviet troops. Russians reach Berlin: Hitler commits suicide and Germany surrenders on 7 May.
Truman becomes President of the US on Roosevelt's death, and Attlee replaces Churchill, after atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrenders on 14 August.
