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After signing the non aggression pact with Joseph Stalin, Hitler moved quickly to Poland and was surprisingly attacked there.
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France and Britain declared war on germany but Poland fell some time before they could make any military response.
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The French leaders surrendered Germans started to get into france and took Paris. Germans took control of northern France.
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The battle of Britain was going on. Mussolini gets in to North Africa trying to reach the oil fields.
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Rommel’s Afrika korps attacked. The british forces retreated to Tobruck, Libya. Also the Under the Lend-Lease act passed in this date.
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His plan to invade the Soviet Union. The Soviet troops weren't prepared for this and the Germans got in about 500 miles inside the Soviet Union. The Soviets used the scorched-earth strategy to keep them out.
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Roosevelt cuts off oil shipments to japan after discovering a Japanese code. Besides this Japan continued with their plans of attacking the European colonial powers and the USA by surprise.
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Day of Infamy, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawwaii. The US military knew of an attack from a code of a Japanese message but they did know when or where it would be. The Japanese got rid of 19 ships, around 2,300 Americans were killed and over 1,100 were wounded.
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1942 - Final Solution Begins, not in text Was the Nazi Germany's plan to get rid of the Jews through genocide. This was agreed on the Wannsee Conference in January 1942. Nazis made extermination camps and gas chambers that could kill as many as 6,00 people in a day
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Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle Tokyo and other Japanese cities get bombed and did not cause a lot of damaged.
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Nimitz started the battle letting the Japanese in the island starting their assault with American forces hidden in the horizon. Americans destroyed many Japanese planes, aircraft carriers and a ship. Yamamoto ordered a withdrawal by June 7.
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On August 7 many US marines and some Australians landed on Guadalcanal and the island of Tulagi. This became an air and land battle and ended in February 1943 after the Japanese lost around 24,00 of 26,00 soldiers.
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British, American, Canadian and French got their way into Normandy’s beach. The germans were very well prepared and about 2,700 American men died that day
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The battle of the Bulge took place. German tanks broke American defense into the front of the Ardennes.
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Lasted 82 Days
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General Eisenhower surrendered the Third Reich from German military. Roosevelt wasn't alive to see their victory.
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he united states drops a atomic bomb in `Hiroshima between 70,000 and 80,000 people died.
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A bomb was dropped in Nagasaki. It killed approximately 70,000 people in that instant and radiation then killed many more.
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Japanese surrendered to General Douglas MacArtur
