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To distract Italians from bad economy.
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Did the appeasement policy trying to prevent war.
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Allowed Germany to take over a part of Czechoslovakia.
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Germany and Russia split Poland between themselves and The UK and France declared war on Germany.
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Hitler and Stalin signed a non-aggression pact which included secret clauses for the division of Poland.
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The cruel concentration camp was build.
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Hitler launched his blitzkrieg (lightning war) against Holland and Belgium. Rotterdam was bombed almost to extinction. Both countries were occupied.
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The British commander-in-chief, General Gort, had been forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk. The troops waited, under merciless fire, to be taken off the beaches. A call went out to all owners of sea-worthy vessels to travel to Dunkirk to take the troops off the beaches of Dunkirk. More than 338,000 men were rescued, among them some 140,000 French who would form the nucleus of the Free French army under a little known general, Charles de Gaulle.
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Italy entered the war on the side of the Axispowers. Italy’s motive for entering the war was the hope of rich pickings from the spoils of war.
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The Russians won their first victory against Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Mussolini had been thrown out of office and the new government of Italy surrendered to the British and the USA. They then agreed to join the allies. The Germans took control of the Italian army, freed Mussolini from imprisonment and set him up as head of a puppet government in Northern Italy. This blocked any further allied advance through Italy.
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The inmates of Ausschwitz tried to rebell against the Nazi guards.
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Germany launched its final defensive through the Ardennes region of Belgium. However, they were beaten back by the allies.
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Allied troops landed on the shores of the Normandie.
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The French capital of Paris was liberated from the Germans.
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The German leader, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bombproof shelter together with his mistress, Eva Braun, who he had, at the last minute, made his wife.
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The Russians reached Berlin shortly before the US forces.
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On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The Japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allies ending the second world war.