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The japanese were determinedt to expand their empire. Japan began the expansion of its empire by taking over mabchuria. Thousands of chinese soldiars and civilians were killed.
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In October, Hitler of Germany and Mussolini of Italy signed an allience called "The Rome Berlin axis". A month later, Germany made an agreement with Japan. Germany, Italy and Japan were called the Axis powers.
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Kristallnacht was the Night of Broken Glass when the nazis violently attacked jewish homes, buissnesses and synagogues across Germany. This happened after Grynszpan avenged his uncle's deportation to poland by shooting an employee of the German Embassyin Paris.
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Hitlers suprise attack on Poland occured on September 1, 1939. Germany attacked Polish airspace by raining bombs and terror on the Poles. Also Hitler had tanks and troop trucks filled with soldiars going through the polish border. The city then crumbled under the assult which caused WWII.
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The Soviet Union invaded E. Poland on September 1, 1939. After a secret agreement, Stalin sent troops to occupy the Eastern half of Poland. He began annexing regions. Finland resisited until March.
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During the summer of 1940, Germanys luftwaffe began bombing Great Britain. They Bombed airfields and then focused on cities like London. RAF used radar and the decoding of the Enigma machine. Hitler called his attacks off May 10, 1941.
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Sensing a quick victory, Italys Mussolini joined forces with Hitler and declared war on Great Britain and France. On June 22, 1940, France surrendered. The Germans had taken control over the northern part of France. However they had left the southern part a puppet government headed by petain.
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The Lend Lease Act, passed in march 1941, was an act passed by the United States in which the president could lend or lease arms and other supplies to any country vital to them. In the summer of 1941 the U.S navy was escorting british ships with U.S arms hitler in response sunk any cargo ship that crossed his path.
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On june 22, 1941, The operation Barbossa which was the name of the invasion, took place. As russians retreated,they burned and destroyed everything. Hitler took Leningrad but Moscow dug in until March, 1943.
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On Augest 9, 1941, Roosevelt and Chrurchill met secretly on a battleship off Newfoundland. This joint declaration upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government.
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Japans surprise attack damages 18 ships, killed 2,400 Americans and wounded 1,000. The next day congressdeclaredwar on Japan.
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President Roosevelt set up a progra of internment and loss. of property. Japanese-americans were considered a threat to the country. In March, the military began rounding them up for relocation camps. Two-thirds were Nisei or native born american citizens.
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This island was home to a key American Nimitz was ready and American. carrier planes swooped in to attack Japanese ships. 322Japanese planes, 4 aircfraft carriers and 1 support ship were destroyed.
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On July 10, 1943, Allied forces captured Sicily. It toppled Mussolini from power. Fighting, however, continued until germany fell.
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This was the ivasion of Normandy. Germans had concrete bunkers, machine guns, rocketlaunchers and cannons. The allies held the beachheads and with additional troops patton raced through.
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On May 8, 1945 General Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of the third Reich. The surrender was officially signed in Berlin.
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The U.S dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Almost 73,000 people died.
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The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagaski Japan.. It killed 37,500 people. Radiation from the bomb killed more.
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Japanese surrender took place on the battleship, Missouri, in Tokyo Bay. General Douglas Mac Arthur accepted the surrender. WWII ended.
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22 Nazi leaders were charged with waging a war of aggresion and commiting crimes against humanity. 12 were sentanced to death.
