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Hitler kills millions of Jews
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The Polish army made several severe strategic miscalculations early on. Although 1 million strong, the Polish forces were severely under-equipped and attempted to take the Germans head-on with horsed cavaliers in a forward concentration, rather than falling back to more natural defensive positions.
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On this day in 1939, the Red Army crosses the Soviet-Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft. Helsinki was bombed, and 61 Finns were killed in an air raid.
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he was voted into office.
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Germany invaded france and took over.
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The US was selling weapons to the allies
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The British and Italians were setting up defenses in the Balkans and that caused Hitler to invade.
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German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date.
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Also known as Operation Barbarossa the first operational order for the invasion on the soviet union
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Japan bombed the US -- Pearl Harbor not even an hour after the US were discussing the options of peace with Japan.
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oversaw the successful allied occupation of postwar Japan and led united nations forces in the Korean war
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the us countered japans plans and ambushed the few remaining aircraft carriers inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese navy.
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Russians last defense against Germans and they had stopped them from advancing.
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The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater.
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it marked the culmination of the World War II North African campaign between the British Empire and the German-Italian army.
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Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill coordinated their military strategy against the germans, and japan.
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USA Invaded France via air and sea many causalities.
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Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for post-war.
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US and USSR were threatening each other with atomic bombs.
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Franklin Roosevelt had a intracerebral hemorrhage.
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Mussolini was shot and hanged for the public to see.
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The Russians were only a day or so away from overtaking his chancellery and he was urged to leave but commited suicide.
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Various agreements on economy, punishment, land boundaries and reparations on the germans.
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it was estimated that 500 thousand men would probably die if the united nations had invaded japan, instead they chose to use a atomic bomb and the Japanese still hadn't stopped so the US dropped two bombs.
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50 countries joined together to stop further conflict like WW2
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During WW2 Japanese Americans were forced to relocate to incarceration camps
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Throught 1945-1949 13 trials were carried out against Nazi Party Officials and High-ranking officers.
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also known as the European recovery program, channeled over 13$ billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951.
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soviet forces blockaded rail,road, and water access to allied controlled areas of berlin. the us and united kingdom responded airlifting food and fuel to berlin from allied airbases in western germany
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German democratic republic began building a barbed wire and concrete "Antifascistischer Schutzwall" or "Antifascist bulwark" to keep fascists from entering eastern Germany.
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Nuclear-armed soviet missiles were armed on cuba just 90 miles from US shores
