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On September 1,1939 Germany invades Poland causing the beginning of World War II. The Soviet Union also annexd the Baltic states.
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Germany invaded France on May 10,1940. The British and the French thought that the German were going to attack through central Belgium.
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The Battle of Britain was a very important battle because it is the first the Germany lost. The British were very well equipped and were ready to fight.
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Proposed in late 1940, and passed in March 1941. The Lend and Lease Act was the principal mean for providing U.S military aid to foregin nation during WWII.
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Under code name "Operation Barbarossa", Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 in the largest German military operation of WWII.
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On June 22,1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. Three army groups with over thee million people and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier.
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On December 7,1941 Japan made a surprise attack on Hawaii. This attack wiped out nearly 90% of the Pacific forces.
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This act made America, a neutral country, into the conflict. Germany and Japan had made a plan to go against the United States.
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U.S surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon. Aproxemitly 75,00 Pilipino and american troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous a 65-mile march to prison camps.
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Six months after the Pearl Harbor attack , the U.S defeted Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of WWII. The U.S was able to preempt and counter Japan's planned ambush.
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Residentas of the Jewish ghettos staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination. This lead to other revolts thougout Germany.
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During WWII resulted in the Allied liberation of Western European from Nazi's Germany. 156,000 American, British and Canadian fources a=landed on five beaches along a 50-mlie strech of France.
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On July 23,1944 Soviet soilders were the first to liberate prisioners from concintration camps. On January 27,1945 the entered Auschwitz and found prisoners living in terrible conditions.
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The Battle of Bugle was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium.
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On by February 1945 three U.S marine divisions landed on the island. Iwo Jima was defended 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops.
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During WWII an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over Japan. The explosion killed out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people.
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