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Hitler made a surprise attack on Warsaw, Poland. His tanks and troops came on through the Polish/German border. The aircraft and artillery began bombing. This officially started WWII.
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Hitler attacked Denmark and they fell after 4 hours. After two months, Norway surrended. Germany started to build bases on the Norwegian and Danish coasts so they could strike on Great Britain.
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The British Navy facilitated a major rescue operation across the English Channel and saved about 338,000 British soldiers who were on the run from the German army.
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The Germans had taken Paris and the French leaders surrended. Britain was now all alone to face the Germans.
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The Germans begin to focus on London to break British Morale. Even though the Germans had caused much destruction the British continued to keep fighting.
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The Battle of Britain ends. The RAF successfully help off the German airforce from gaining air superiority. Hitler decided to never invade Britain.
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The German tanks and aircraft announced begining of the invasion. The Soviet Union was not prepared for this attack. Germans bombed destroyed warehouses where there food was stored. City refused to fall.
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German U-boats fired at a U.S. boat and Roosevelt ordered Navy commanders to shoot German submarines.
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At Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the Japanese Navy bombed the U.S. Pacific Fleet. More than 2,300 Americans were killed and had sunk and damaged 19 ships. U.S. declared war on Japan immedietly.
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The Japanese marched into the Philippine capital of Manila. The Philippine government moved to the island Corregidor. The Japanese took over the Bataan Peninsula in April.
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Japanese reach Singapore and invade, the colony surrenders. The Japanese had conquered Dutch East Indies like the islands of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Celebes. They had also conquered Burma.
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The Americans and Australians strike back in the Pacific. 16 B-25 bombed Tokyo and several other Japanese cities. The Americans made a point to the Japanese that they were easy to attack.
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This naval battle was a turning point in the war in the Pacific. The U.S. navy destroyed 4 Japanese aircraft carriers and stopped Japan from taking Midway island.
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The U.S. Marines landed at the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific and defeated the Japanese soldiers holding the island. The battle lasted 6 months.
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This was a turning point in the war on the Eastern Front when the Germans tried to invade the city of Stalingrad but the Soviet Union defeated the Germans.
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This was the largest sea to land invasion in the European Theatre of war. It led to Hitler having to fight a war on three fronts. By the end of the day, the allies had established beacheads in the Normandy section of France.
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This was the last major German offensive of the war. The goal was to hit Antwerp and get acess to oil. The Allies eventually stopped the German.
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This officialy ended the European theatre of war.
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An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90% of the city killing
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The Japanese officially surrender to General Douglas MacArthur the surrender ceremony took place on the battleship the Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
