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Hitler took tanks and troops across the Polish border.
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Germans had taken Paris, they took control of the Northern part but left the southern part to a puppet government led by Marshal Philippe Pétain.
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Germany gives up daylight raids in favor of night bombing. Homes were bombed.
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Primary Source"Remarks of President Roosevelt and Her Majesty Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands on the Transfer of a Ship Under the Lend-Lease Act August 6, 1942." National Archieves. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 6 Aug. 1942. Web. 11 Mar. 2015. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/fdr-churchill/images/lend-lease-1.gif. The US president could lend or lease arms and other supplies to any country that was important to the US.
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Hitler began invading Russia, Russians were not prepared for this attack.
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Roosevelt (US president) cut off oil shipments to Japan
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Primary Source "Teaching With Documents: "'A Date Which Will Live in Infamy'"" National Archieves. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Web. 12 Mar. 2015. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/day-of-infamy/images/infamy-address-1.gif. Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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Primary Source Stangl, Franz, and Gitta Sereny. 1 Jan. 1970. Web. 12 Mar. 2015. http://spartacus-educational.com/GERstangl.htm#banner. Extra Info Gemans decide on their plan to kill Jews. They decide that there will be killing centers in Poland called Ghettos.
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Some Japanese cities were bombed… bombs did a little damage but raids left big damages in people
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A four day war.
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Luftwaffe went bombing at night against Russians, to obtain control of Stalingrad.
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Allies invaded Western Europe
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Hitler goes against the allies. Allies did not expect this battle.
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Primary Document
In this document, you can see some key points that were touched in the Yalta conference.
"PROTOCOL OF PROCEEDINGS OF CRIMEA CONFERENCE." Modern History Sourcebook. Paul Halsall. Web. 11 Mar. 2015. <http://le Extra Info US, Britain and Russia make important decisions based on the future progress of the war and on the postwar wolrd as well. -
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Allied forces invaded Okinawa and Japanese were kind of forced into a Pacific war.
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Primary Source "Statement by the President of the United States." 6 Aug. 1945. Web. 12 Mar. 2015. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/documents/index.php?documentdate=1945-08-06&documentid=59&studycollectionid=abomb&pagenumber=1. US dropped atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
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US dropped atomic bomb in Nagasaki.
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