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On September First 1939 Germany Invaded Poland. Germany wanted Posen, Southern Oberschlesien, Kattowitz, West Prussia, and the free city of Danzig back. They lost those territories after WWI. This caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
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USSR fufills its part of the German-Soviet Pact by invading Poland. No war is declared by the West. Katyn Massacre by the Soviet Union.
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After the Benelux surrendered Germany easily marched into Paris France. Germany Wanted Alsacce Lorraine back which it had won in the Franco-Prussian War and Lost in WWI
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America Starts lending Money and weapons to great Britain for little or no cost because Roosevelt wants to join the war with the British.
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America lends Money and weapons to great Britain for little or no cost because Roosevelt wants to join the war with the British.
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After Germany bombed London it started preparing for Operation Sea Lion or an invasion of Britain.
Hitler wanted to "Where Napoleon Failed I Shall Succeed. I shall Land On The Shores of Great Britain" -
After Germany Bombed London it Started Preparing for Operation Sea Lion an invasion of Britain.
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Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Nazis and communists did not like each other so Hitler feeling he was safe in the west attacked the Soviet union.
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The Japanese attacked pearl Harbor to destroy the Americans Pacific Fleet. Japan Wanted to Conquer Asia and the pacific and the Us was in thje way Germany and italy declared war on US after US declared war on Japan.
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America declares war on Japan after being attacked at Pearl Harbor. Japan attacked Pearl harbor to make sure there was no interference for it attacking pacific islands.
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Germany Declares war on the USA after America declares war on Japan. Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor beforehand.
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75,000 American POWs were forced by the japanese army to undergo a 65 mile march. Japan had previously finished conqering the Philipines.
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An american ambush of a japanese suprise attack. Japan was planing a suprise attack on strategic midway island but the communications were intercepted by the USA.
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Germans invaded the Soviet city of stalingrand (Today Volgograd) (Previously Tsaritsyn). The long and bloody battle was a German Defeat which marked a turning point for the war on the eastern front.
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Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt against Nazi rule. The Revolt is brutally put down.
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Allied troops liberate the beaches of Normandy France. This is the turning point of the war in Western Europe.
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Allied Soilders Liberated German Concentration Camps in Europe.
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Germany's last offensive in WWII. Germany tries to break through the allied offensive and creates a Bulge in the allied lines. The bulge does not break and Germany is pushed back.
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American Marines take over the Island of Iwo Jima to prepare for an invasion of mainland Japan.
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America dropped the first atomic bomb. Japan still did not surrender.
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America dropped the second atomic bomb forcing Japan to surrender.