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From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. This started the II World War. Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later
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The Soviets defeat the east plish forces
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The Soviets and Germans divided Poland. The demarcation line for the partition of German- and Soviet-occupied Poland was along the Bug River.
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Hitler made a public peace with United Kingdom and France. But he said that the future of Poland was determinated by the Germans and the Soviets.
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Chamberlaine rejected this peace by saying"Past experience has shown that no reliance can be placed upon the promises of the present German Government.". After this rejection Hitler ordered an immediate offensive against France, but bad weather forced repeated postponements until the spring of 1940.
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The Soviet Union invades Finland, initiating the so-called Winter War. 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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Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9.
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Germany attacks western Europe, France and the neutral Low Countries. Luxembourg is occupied in this date.
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With the consecuence of the Blitzrieg, Johannes Blaskowitz surrenders in Holland
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Belgium surrenders in the hands of the Germans
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They enter in the war as a consecuence of signing a treaty with Germany
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The Soviet Union occupied the Baltic States, later they anexeed them as Soviet Republics
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Italy invaded France declaring the war both France and United kingdom.
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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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The Soviet Union forces Romania to cede the eastern province of Bessarabia and the northern half of Bukovina to the Soviet Ukraine.
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Ther was an air war known as the Battle of Britain.
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They arbitrate on the division of the disputed province of Transylvania between Romania and Hungary. The abdication of the King Carol, brings to power a dictatorship under General Ion Antonescu.
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The Italian forces of Lybia invaded the British forces of Egypt
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign this pact to formalise the Axis Powers. The Tripartite Pact stipulated that any country, with the exception of the Soviet Union, not in the war which attacked any Axis Power would be forced to go to war against all three. The Axis expanded in November 1940 when Hungary, Slovakia and Romania joined the Tripartite Pact
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Italy invaded Greece from the Albanians.
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The Battle of Britain ended with the defeat of the Nazi Germany
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Hungary joined to the Axis dude for the pressure of the Italians
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Romania became part of the Axis.
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Slovakia joined in the Axis Power
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Bulgaria joined the Axis because of the pression of the Germans.
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The leaders of the terrorist movement of Ustasa proclaimed theIndependent State of Croatia. They were recognised by Germany and Italy, and gained the new state of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria started to invade Yugoslavia in the early April, it´s consecuence was the surrending of Yugoslavia
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Croatia joined the Axis
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The Axis, except Bulgaria invadedthe Soviet Union. The invation started with the joining of Finland to the Axis because of the territorial losses by the Soviets.Germany occupied Smolensk by August. Later the Germans occupied the Baltic States and attacked Lenningrad, (St.Petersburg) by september with the Finns.In this month the Germany and Romanian troopscaptured Kiev. After they captured Mooscow by October and finally they conquered Rostov on the Don River in November.
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This battle was part of the invasion of the Soviet Union operation leading by the Germans. It was part of the operation of Barbarossa.
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The Soviet Union attacked the Germans from the suburbs of Moscow and forced them to move the west.
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It was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii.
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The United States declared the war to Japan entering in the II World War. Japanese troops arrived in Philippines, in French Indochina and in British Singapore. These would led to the conflict with Germany and the Axis too.
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The British bomb Köln, this was the first time that the war reached Germany. These woul lead to more bombs by the Unite States, causing rubble in the urban Germany. All the buildings collapsed except the cathedral of Köln.
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The Germans and the Axis fought against the Soviet Union for the control of Stalingrad, in the south of Russia. It was the major battle in the II World War.
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The British troops defeated the Germans and the Italians at El Alamein, in Egypt. Tis caused a retreat of the Axis across Lybia to the eastern border of Tunisia.
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They arraived at several points of the Moroccan and the Hungarian coasts
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The Allies moved towards the border of Tunisia and force the German troops to leave the south of France
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This battle finished with the surrending of the Axis, because of the lack of food and resources
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The Axis surrender by the Allies and lost their campaigns in the north of Africa. The Allies used this territory to lunch attacks to Italy.
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The Germans made a massive tank offensive near Kursk in the Soviet Union. The Soviets attacked at one point in the German offensive line during one week, and began an offensive movement against the Germans.
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The US and the British troops arraived in Sicily. In the middle of August, they controlled Sicily.
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The government of Italy deposed Benito Mussolini, and established a government with marshal Pietro Badogolio as the head of the government.
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The Badoglio government surrender by the Allies. As a consecuence, Germany seized control of Rome and established a Fascist government under the ruling of Mussolini
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Allied troops land on the beaches of Salerno near Naples. They fought there to occupie the beach of Salerno.
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The Germans freed Benito Mussolini who was imprisoned, to rule the Fascist dictatorship of Italy.
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The Soviet Union liberated Kiev in the second battle of Kiev, in which the Red Army defeted the German troops.
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The Allies arrived succesfully in Anzio, in the south of Rome. They fought against the Germans in the battle of Anzio, where they won.
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The Germans fearing Hungary’s intention to desert the Axis partnership, they occupy Hungary and compel the regent with admiral Miklos Horthy as a pro-German minister president
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Within six weeks, Anglo-American bombers could hit targets in eastern Germany for the first time and they could seiz the power of Rome.
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These were the Allied landing invasion of Normandy. This operation began with the invasion of German-occupied western Europe, this led to the liberation of France from Nazi control, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war.
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The Soviets lunched an offensive to Byelorussia, destroying the German Army Group Center and driving westward to Vistula River across Warsaw. This attack was known as the operation Bagration.
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The Anglo-American forces arrived at Normandy and went to Paris
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The non-communist Home Army raised against the Germans before the Soviets arrived in Warsaw, to liberate Warsaw
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Allies forces arrived in Nice, France and advanced rapidly towards the Rhine River
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The appearance of Soviet troops on the Prut River induces the Romanian opposition to overthrow the Antonescu regime. The new government concludes an armistice and immediately switches sides in the war. The Romanian turnaround compels Bulgaria to surrender and the Germans to evacuate Greece, Albania, and southern Yugoslavia in October
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The French troops with the Allies reached the capital of France, and defeated the Germans. Later they reached the deffensive line of the German forces, incluiding the borders of Belgium.
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underground Slovak resistance units rise against the Germans and the indigenous fascist Slovak regime, because the regime was under the leadership of the Slovak National Council, consisting of both Communists and non-Communists
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Finland concludes an armistice with the Soviet Union, leaving the Axis partnership
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The Germans accepted this surrender by the rising Home Army Forces in Warsaw.
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The Hungarian fascist Arrow Cross movement carries out a coup d’état (of help) with German support to prevent the Hungarian government from pursuing negotiations for surrender to the Soviets
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US troops landed in Philippines, to fight against Japan.
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The Germans capture Banská Bystrica, the headquarters of the uprising, and put an end to organized resistance.
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The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in an attempt to re-conquer Belgium and split the Allied forces along the German border. By 15 days later, the Germans are in retreat
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They liberated Warsaw and Krakow, they captured Budapest one day later, they drived the Germans and their Hungarian collaborators out of Hungary in early April, they forced the surrender of Slovakia with the capture of Bratislava, and they captured Vienna in the same month
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US troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen, to fight in the west of Germany, and to participate in the battle of Berlin
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They surrounded all Berlín. This was an important part of the Battle of Berlin, because this movement meant the defeatinf of Germany
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Viewing their defeating by the Soviets, Hitler decided to suicide with his family members for not beeing tortured.
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Allied troops conquer Okinawa, the last Japanese island that the Allies needed to conquer
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Germany surrender to the west Allies troops, because in part they received the new of Hitlerand because the Allies were stronger.
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Germany surrender to the Soviet Union as a consecuences of the debasting Battle of Berlin, and because the Soviets were becoming stronger.
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United States dropped an uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy)on Hiroshima. This bomb with the Nagashaki bomb were the main reason of the remaining of the atomic bombs.
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The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria. This was because Japan refesed the obligtions from the Soviet Union
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It was a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki. It occurred because Japan refused the obligations of the United States.
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Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender, Japan formally surrenders, bringing the end of the war.
