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The Munich Pack is broken by Hitler because he invades the rest of Czechoslovakia. Hitler breaking the Munich Pack ends the British and French policy of Appeasment.
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Not much happened on land at this time so it was dubbed the Phony War.
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Italy with Germany sign a pact that have eachother pledge to support the other.
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Hitler thought that Germany lost the last war because they had to fight on two fronts. So to stop that sort of situation to happen again he signs a nonagression pact with Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union.
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Germany has decided to expand Eastward, but has to half Poland if they want to keep the Soviets happy.
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Germans hit the Polish with everything they have fast and hard.
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With Germany taking the Western half the Soviets take the Eastern half
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The Soviets wants military bases in Finland, but Finland won't give, so the Soviets invade.11
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The Soviet Union wants Finnish military bases, but Finland won't give so the Soviets try to attack.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Both countries have a different way of dealing with it. Denmark didn't fight back instead choosing to fight without fighting. Norway thought that they could actually take on Germany.
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Germany is now really starting to invade, invading Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Luxembourg accepts defeat without trying to fight. The other two however, want to fight and lose.
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The Germans break through the Ardennes Forest area north of the Maginot line, which was a surprise move. Doing this they cut off British and French troops in Northern France.
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The Dutch, like everyone else, has fallen to the German, even with the British support.
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Belgiums leader, King Leopold, surrenders.
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360,000 allied soldiers are evacuated from Dunkirk. Their equipment was left behind.
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The Germans smashed through French defenses as the army was falling apart.
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Norway, who thought that they could keep back Germany, falls. (Which surprised no one)
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By this time France is under Germany's control. The Nazis then occupy Paris.
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France, having deep conflicts within itself, calls for an Armistice to be signed with Germany in the forest of Compiègne.
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Hitler bombed Britain with hundreds German plane nearly every day.
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Japan, being a not that big of an island, doesn't have many materials, so they get other nations to sell them these materials However, America stops sending materials to Japan because of their mass gathering of land.
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The Japanese sign a pact called the Tripartite, or Axis, with Germany and Italy.
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Hitler thought that he would be able to invade Britain, while his German air force, the Luftwaffe, could drive the RAF out of the skies. They couldn't. The RAF drove the Luftwaffe from Britain. And Hitler never thought of invading Britain again.
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The 26 nations of the Allied forces then pledged that there would be no seperate peace until victory was theirs.
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After all this time in the war and the bombing campaign Germany did, Britain announced that they would no longer have the money to pay for the war materials the United States have been selling them. The U.S. congress granted president Roosevelt to lease arms and supplies to countries he thought would be beneficial to the protection of the U.S. There was a lot of tanks, guns, planes, and other war goods frome America to Britain and the other Allied nations.
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America gives the Allied countries so many war goods that it earned the name, the Arsenal of Democracy.
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America, being the good guys and gals they are, officially declare that Greenland is under their protection for the rest of the war.
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The Germans invade the Soviet Union, breaking their non-aggression pact.
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They talked on a boat off the coast of Newfoundland and made a document saying what the Allies' war aims were.
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He became premiere of Japan
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The American Secratary of State, Cordell Hull, says they will fully support Japan if they stop they leave China and no longer support the Axis.
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The snowy weather stops Germany's advances. The Soviets drive Germany back to Moscow and Leningrad.
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They take the Pacific, Wake Islands,a dn Guam
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Roosevelt meets with Hirohito to discuss peace.
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The Japanese accuse the United States of standing in the way of the "new order in east Aisia. So the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor for two-hours, killing 2,300 Americans. And destroying many ships.
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two and a half hours after their attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan declares war on the US.
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They issued a formal declaration of war on Japan, Germany, and Italy.
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The U-boats start operating off the coast of the US. They most they loss at once is 10,000 tons.
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They bomb Tokyo. Not accomplishing much, but shows what will coem.
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The Phillipines, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, Burma, and parts of New Britain and New Guinea end up to the Japanese.
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The Americans and Japanes battle for Hawaii islands. The Americans lost a carrier, a destroyer, and 150 planes. The Japanese though, lost four aircraft carriers, two heavy cruisers, three destroyers, and 330 planes.
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower lands in French North Africa. He alllows the Allies to take the key points in Algeria and Morocco in a few days.
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They finnaly win back Stalingrad, Kharkiv, and Smolensk.
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The US reclaim Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
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The Americans, British men, and Canadians invade Normandy beaches. Within a week the Allies established beach heads.
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The Allies make it half way through Germany
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He is caught and killed
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Hitler is found dead, by suicide.
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Japan is hit with 2 atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This killed about 120,000 people.
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The Japanese formally surrender to the Allies.
