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Adolf Hitler joined the German Workers' Party. This certain party promoted German Nationalism and antisemitism.
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In 1929, German went into a wide spread unemployment and had severe economic depression. This caused the Nazis to criticize the ruling government and win elections.
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In 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed German Chancellor. This was when Germany was ruled under the Nazis.
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Hitler had destroyed the league by demanding equality of arms with France and Britain. When this happened, he had broken the Treaty of Versailles affecting Europe majorly.
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In 1935, Hitler had put together a big rearmament rally that many other nations let him get away with. This is where he was aloud to have a navy, but it had to be 35% if the British navy which is more than the 6 battleships Germany was allowed. This affected the rest of the world, because now Hitler was able to start getting his army back together.
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In 1936, Hitler moved his troops into Rhineland, which wasn't supposed to have any troops in that area. This affected Russia and France because the commanders had orders to retreat if the French army tried to get in the way. This was also another way he broke the Treaty.
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Japanese forces murdered hundreds of thousands of people in Nanking. This became known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking because thousands of women were raped.
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Blitzkrieg means lightning war. Throughout these two years, this method of war was used by Hitler to take over Poland, Belgium, Netherlands, and France.
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1.5 million German troops invaded Poland on September 1st. Two days later on September 2nd, Poland declared war on Germany, causing WWII to start up.
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The Dunkirk Evacuation was an evacuation of British Expeditionary Force and other allied troops from French seaport, Dunkirk to England. The troops and civilians were evacuating because Germany invaded low countries and northern France.
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On September 07, 1940, 300 German bombers raided London as a Blitz. The bombing lasted until May the next year.
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Japanese fighter plans had flown over Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii dropping bombs. More than 2,000 American soldiers died, causing President Roosevelt to declare war on Japan the next day.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle ever. The Russians were guarding the city of Stalingrad, this was also where the Germans had to turn back and not be able to go further into Russia.
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Over 160000 allied troops lined up along a 50 mile stretch of a French coastline to fight the Nazis. 5000 ships and 13000 planes and other aircraft's supported the invasions, and almost 10,000 soldiers were wounded or killed.
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American Marines and Soldiers made an attack on Iwo Jima, a Japanese home island. By the time this battle ended a little over a month later, 7,000 marines died while 3 times that amount of Japanese troops had also died.
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V-E Day is known as Victory in Europe day. On May 8 in 1945 Great Britain and the U.S celebrate their defeat in the Nazi war.
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The U.S dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th, then a few days later, on August 9th dropped another atomic bomb on Nagaski. These two bombs were the first time a nuclear weapon has ever been used in a war.
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The surrender of Japan on August 14, 1945 is now known as V-J Day (Victory from Japan). This was also the day that WWII ended.
