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Germans invade Poland with a three front Blitzkrieg. They used 1.5 million soldiers counting both by land and sea.
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Winston Churchill is named first lord of the admiralty, British Royal Force creates the first propaganda air raid of the war.
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France signs armistice with Germany which provided for the German occupation of the northern half of France. It permitted the establishment of a collaborationist regime in the south.
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Hitler cancelled Operation Sealion because he wanted to be completely concentrated in USSR. A few days later, October 28 was the date Italy attacked Greece.
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*German Troops entered Bulgaria
*British forces invaded Ethiopia, this caused that the suez canal was blocked for 3 weeks by the germans
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The germans and their allies invaded the soviet union, in direct violation of the German Soviet Pact.
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Riga gets overtaken:Riga, the capital of Latvia, is overwhelmed by a Nazi German occupation force.
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Joseph Stalin calls for a "scorched earth" defense, in which both the Red Army and ordinary Russian citizens would lay waste to the land as they retreat from the advancing Germans, leaving nothing to support the enemy troops
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Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia's Communist Party leader, calls for armed resistance against the Nazi German occupation.
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Winston Churchill sends a message to Joseph Stalin expressing the hope that the great powers can join forces to fight the German menace.
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In relief of British troops, U.S. forces arrive in Iceland to defend the strategically located island.
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The RAF raids the Nazi German naval base of Wilhelmshaven.
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George Johnson Armstrong, a British naval engineer who offered his services as a spy to the Nazis while stationed in the United States, is executed for treason.
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The United States immediately declared war on Japan. This caused that later on the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagazaki, Japan.
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The United States bombed Japan from the aircraft named “Hornet”
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United States of America defeated the Japanese attempt to capture Midway Island
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The siege of Sebastopol began in Crimea, this was a battle fought by the axis powers of Germany, Romania and Italy against the Soviet Union for control of Sebastopol.
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The american forces landed in Guadalcanal
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Britain attacked Germany at North Africa in the city of El Alamein.
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This operation was a plan in which Romel would be caught and was caught by 2 major forces, this 2 major forces arrived in the cities of Casablanca, Algiers and Oran to setup an allied army in the West of North Africa.
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The Russians retook the city of Kurks
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Guadalcanal was taken over by American forces which had landed on this place several months ago.
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The Russians now retooked another city in their territory, which was Kharkov.
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The germans launched an attack against the Russians on the afternoon of February 20, 1943.
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A massive military operation which 150,000 allied soldiers landed in France, which was liberated by the end of August.
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The Germans launched an unsuccessful attack in Belgium and Northern France, which was known as The Battle of the Bulge.
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US troops land in Okinawa to start invading Japanese territory after the bombings of Pearl Harbor.
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Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Western Allies and Reims and on May 9 to the Soviets in Berlin.
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United States bombs Hiroshima as a way of revenge for what Japan did at Pearl Harbor, 60-90 thousand buildings were destroyed and around 140,000 people died in Hiroshima which of that amount it's estimated that around 70,000 were killed instantly and the other 70,000 were killed because of radiation within of 5 years after the bomb.
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United States now bombs Nagasaki 3 days after bombing Hiroshima. It is estimated 40,000 people were killed instantly the day the bomb was dropped and approximately 70,000 by the end of 1945.
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In September 2, 1945 Japan surrendered from WW2 after the 2 bombings in the cities of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945). This made the war finally come to an end
