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Hitle`s troops marched into the rest of Czechoslovakia.
This was the time when, most British people, realize that the only thing that would stop Hitlet was a war. -
With this pact, Italy and Germany agree to a military and political alliance, giving birth formally to the Axis powers.
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An alliance between Great Britain and Poland for mutual assistance in case of military invasion from Germany.
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In this pact the Fascist Germany and Communist Russia nowpublicly pledged never to attack one another.
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Inmediate cause of World War II.
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Honoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.
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It was a phase early in World War II that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies (Great Britan and France) against the German Reich.
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The Finns sue for an armistice and have to cede the northern shores of Lake Lagoda and the small Finnish coastline on the Arctic Sea to the Soviet Union.
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Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9.
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Luxembourg is occupied on May 10; the Netherlands surrenders on May 14; and Belgium surrenders on May 28. On June 22, France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline. In southern France, a collaborationist regime with its capital in Vichy is established.
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Italy declares war on Britain and France.
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It was a Germany’s air force campaign against Great Britain. At first, the Germans' target were British airfields and aircraft factories. Then, they began bombing cities, especially London, to break British morale. Despite the destruction and lossof life, the British did not waver.
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In the agreement they recognized each other's spheres of interest and undertook to assist one another with all political, economic and military means when one of the three contracting powers is attacked by a country not already involved in the war, excluding the Soviet Union.
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It rejects Hitler's offer to join the war.
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British forces in Egypt counter attack the Italians
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Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria invade and dismember Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia surrenders on April 17. Germany and Bulgaria invade Greece in support of the Italians. Resistance in Greece ceases in early June 1941.
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Nazi Germany and its Axis partners' (except Bulgaria) plan to invade the Soviet Union. The Germans quickly overrun the Baltic States and, joined by the Finns, lay siege to Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by September. In the center, the Germans capture Smolensk in early August and drive on Moscow by October. Hitler orders "maximum cruelty" against civilians, Russian resist.
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Roosevelt cut off oil shipments to Japan
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At -34C (-29F) and below, Russians counter attack near Stalingrad (Moscow).
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Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), and British Singapore
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Aerial battle fought between aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), United States Army Air Force (USAAF) and aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Army.
This battle demostrated that United States was able to protect itself and controlled it´s own base aginst Japan attacks -
It was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia; to intercept a Japenesse strike. The Allies were able to syop Japan.
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Over the next three years Anglo-American bombing reduces urban Germany to rubble.
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Japan next targeted Midway Island, American military base.
American forces hidden beyond the horizon, allowed the Japanese to begin their assault on the island. As the first Japanese planes got into the air, American planes swooped in to attack the Japanese fleet.
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German troops fight their way into Stalingrad (Volgograd) on the Volga River by mid-September and penetrate deep into the Caucasus after securing the Crimean Peninsula
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Allied forces, predominantly American, landed on the islands of Guadalcanal (Japanese military base), Tulagi, and Florida in the southern Solomon Islands with the objective of denying their use by the Japanese to threaten the supply and communication routes between the US, Australia, and New Zealand.
Japan made several attempts to retake the fields, but at the end United Stated won and stood with the territories. -
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Soviet troops counterattack, breaking through the Hungarian and Romanian lines northwest and southwest of Stalingrad and trapping the German Sixth Army in the city. Forbidden by Hitler to retreat or try to break out of the Soviet ring, the survivors of the Sixth Army surrender
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U.S. President Roosevelt and Britain Prime minister Winston Churchill agree that Germany must surrender unconditionally. They also plan the Allied invasion of Sicily (Italy)
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A significant turning point in the war against Germany.
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It was Geman's last offensive
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It was a campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers. It was a large scale naval and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat.
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It enables Italian marshall Pietro Badoglio to form a new government
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British troops land on Italy, beginning the Allied campaign in Italy. American troops do the same. This campaing lasted until the surrender of German forces in Italy in May 1945.
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The Badoglio government surrenders unconditionally to the Allies. The Germans immediately seize control of Rome and northern Italy, establishing a puppet Fascist regime under Mussolini, who is freed from imprisonment by German commandos on September 12 of 1945.
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After Badoglio government surrenders unconditionally to the Allies. The Germans immediately seize control of Rome and northern Italy, establishing a puppet Fascist regime under Mussolini, who is freed from imprisonment by German commandos on September 12 of 1945.
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