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One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934. This move was not popular with many Germans who supported Hitler but resented the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces of West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia under the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. However, Hitler sought the nonaggression pact in order to neutralize the possibility of a French-Polish military alliance
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France had thought that Germany would attack along the German-French border just like during World War I. Thinking this, France built the Maginot Line, a series of forts that were joined by underground tunnels backed up by pillboxes and barbed wire. The French built these defenses to keep the Germans out. Almost the entire French army was there waiting to fight.
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The advancing German army traped 330,000 Freanch and British soldiers were traped on the beaches around Dunkirn.
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Hitler starts his blitzkrieg assult on britain
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The british fend off the germans and get back on the offensive with a boosted sence of moral
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pearl harbor was bombed by the japanese on december 7th 1941. the japanese thought that by bombing the americans they would lose their moral and not enter the war
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Japans atempt th knock the U.S. oout of the war before ther even got in it was a complete failure and forced the U.S. to go into the war
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The Battle of Midway fought over and near the tiny U.S. Pacific base at Midway Atoll. It represented the strategic high mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. Prior to this action Japan possessed naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack.
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The raid on Dieppe was the allied assult on the German occupied port in Dieppe France that gave the allied forces valuble information on german defence tatics.
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Germany begins its assult on stallingrad.
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The Allied forces launch their counter attack on Germany. the assult took place on the beaches of normandy.
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who: Germany
what: surenders to the allied forces
where: in Germany
why: Germany was in ruines and they had no chance of winning
impact on the war: it ended the war in europe -
The first atomic bomb was droped on Hiroshima by the U.S.
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The U.S. drops the seciond atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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who: Japan
What: Japan surenders
Where: Japan
Why: the Japanese army was destroyed and japan was going to be destroyed with it if they didnt surender
impact on war: ended world war ll
