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General
- Germany left the Society of Nations
- Hitler became Chancellor of Germany
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- Germany invaded SAAR because of the coal mine and iron deposits)
- STRESSA PACT (GB, USSR and CZECHOLOVAKIA against GERMANY)
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- Hitler invaded Rhineland
- Spanish civil war: Hitler allied with Mussolini and helped Franco. Good moment to test military equipment in Guernica.
- Soviets helped the Popular Front government
- It was signed the Rome-Berlin- Tokyo axis
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- Hitler invaded AUSTRIA
- Munich Agreement: Chamberlain (GB), Hitler, Daladier(F) and Mussolini(I) met to discuss the situation.GB and F accepted the invasion.
- Also, they accepted the annexation of Sudetenland (Sudeten Germans)
- Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia
- Italy and German signed the Iron pact
- Germany and USSR signed the NON-AGRESSION PACT (URRSS took Poland, Finland and Baltic countries)
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Western
- 1st September Hitler invaded POLAND
- April invasion of DENMARK and NORWAY
- lightning war: It was based on the use of tanks, aircrafts and paradrops.
- May Hitler invaded HOLLAND, BELGIUM, LUXEMBURG and FRANCE
- Battle of Dunkerque
- France: North= for Hitler and the South= French general
- Hitler wanted to destroy the English navy, but Britain won. Consequently, Hitler bombed the British cities to break their morale and force the government to make peace.
- Battle of Britain
- 1st September Hitler invaded POLAND
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Balkans
- Hitler needed supplies from ROMANIA, so he forced them to support Germany
- He also forced HUNGARY and BULGARY
- Hitler invaded YUGOSLAVIA
- Italy invaded GREECE
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Russian
- Hitler invaded USSR: 4 reasons: supplies (oil, grain), destroy the communism; living space and slave labours: Operation Barbarossa
- The Russian stopped the Germans thanks to the winter, they burned the lands with the grains, so Germans suffered a lack of petrol
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Pacific
- Germany declared war on the USA in support of Japan
- Within months Japan occupied large areas of the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Singapore, Malaya and parts of Burma
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Pacific
- Japan controlled large parts of Eastern China
- USA worried about the expansion of Japan banned trade with Japan, consequently:
- Japan wanted to invaded Indochina because they needed supplies such as coal, rubber, oil and< other raw materials.
- 7 December Japan attacked on Pearl Harbour, the big US Naval Base in Hawaii
- A Japanese surprise attack against the USA would allow the conquest of Southeast Asia and the Pacific before the USA had recovered
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Pacific
- Battle of Midway: the US sunk all four Japanese aircraft carriers (June 1942) and shot down 300 planes. Japanese naval supremacy in the region ended
- Kamikaze pilots trained to die with honour, flew suicide missions in explosive-filled planes to destroy as many allied targets as they could. Consequently, see in 1945
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African
- German and Italian forces were also fighting in North Africa to invade Egypt (British) to take the Suez Canal and cut off British oil supplies to force them to surrender
- Hitler sent German forces led by Rommel, the African Korps. Allied forces led by British General Montgomery, won the battle at El Alamein
- Allied troops led by U.S. General Eisenhower landed in Algeria and Sicily was invaded
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Mussolini was overthrown and the new government declared war on Germany -
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- 6th June General Eisenhower was in command of the landed of Normandy
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Pacific
- Russians occupied Berlin
- Germany surrendered to the Allies
- Two atomic bombs were dropped in August 1945: the first one on Hiroshima (6 – August) that killed 70,000 people; the second one on Nagasaki (8 – August) killed 36,000.
- On the 14th of August 1945 Japan surrendered unconditionally
