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Hitler went ahead with his plans to unify all German-speaking people. He annexed Austria then demanded the liberation of German people in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. Neville Chamberlain flew to Germany to attempt a settlement before war broke out.
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Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier of France and Mussolini of Italy met in Munich and agreed that Hitler should have the Sudetanland of Czechoslovakia. The Czechs were not represented at the meeting and realising that no country would come to their aid were forced to surrender the Sudetenland to Germany. Hitler assured those at the meeting that this was the extent of his ambitions for expansion. Chamberlain returned to England with a piece of paper signed by Hitler, proclaiming 'peace in our time.'
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Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939.
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The World War 2 starts from Sept. 1st 1939 to Aug. 14th 1945
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After the invasion of Poland, Britian and France declare war on Germany
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The U.S. remain neutral.
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Russia invades Poland after Germany attacks Poland.
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The last remaining Polish forces surrender.
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Russia invades Finland after they attack Poland.
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The first German Enigma messages are decoded by British intelligence.
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Russia-Finland war ends. It convinces Hitler that the Russian military is ineffective.
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Denmark and Norway falls to Germany and occupies the countries.
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British forces land in Narvik, Norway, but leave sin 10 days
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After conquering Poland, Germany attacked France. France fell in June 1940, and soon the Nazis overran most of the rest of Europe and North Africa. Only Britain, led by Winston Churchill, was not defeated.
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Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain.He led Great Britain through World war 2.
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Germany invades France, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg after Denmark, Poland, and Norway.
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The British and the French Forces finally resist the Germans in Durkirk.
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Norway surrenders to Germany.
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Italy declares war on the collapsing France and on Britain.
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German troops march into Paris
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Russia invades Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
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The French, Marshall Petain, signed an armistice with Germany taking France, which had been devastated, out of the war and into German occupation
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France surrenders
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Russia annexes the eastern regions of Romania.
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After the resistance of France and Britain, Germany invades the British Channel islands.
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British victory in Battle of Britain forces Hitler to postpone invasion plans.
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Hitler changes the Luftwaffe's objective from destroying the Royal Air Force to bombing London. This allows the R.A.F to recover and win the battle of Britain.
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Japan, Germany, and Itlay signed a mutual alliance creating the Axis Powers.
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Spain rejects Hitler's offer to join the war and remains neutral.
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British carrier aircraft sink Italian fleet in Taranto's harbor. Yamamoto in Japan is impressed by their success.
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Hungary and Romania, both military dictatorships, join The Axis.
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Hitler begins Operation Barbarossa - the invasion of Russia.
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Bulgaria joins The Axis. The Axis-Russian border now stretch from the Baltic sea to the black sea.
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After military clashes, Japan and Russia sign non-aggression pact.
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Yugoslavia surrenders. British forces evacuate Greek mainland to Crete
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Hitler attacks with 4 million troops against the Soviet Union.
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Japan invades French Indo-China (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia)
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Hitler, eager to occupy the rich Ukraine first, orders to stop army group Center's advance to Moscow and to transfer its two tank armies to army groups "North" and "South". This is perhaps Hitler's greatest mistake. The German Generals argue in vain against it.
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The Pacific War is a war in the Pacific islands which ended up to the fall of the Empire of Japan and the continuation of the Chinese Revolution and the freedom of many other Asian countries.
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Just before 8 on the morning of December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded; that was when the U.S. entered World War 2.
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The U.S. and Great Britian declare war on Japan.
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Japanese forces occupy Manila.
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Japanese forces invades Indonesia
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Japanese forces occupy Malaysia
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Japanese forces invade Burma
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German U-boats begin to sink ships along the US East coast.
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Japanese forces invades Solomn Islands
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Singapore falls to the Japanese in February - around 25,000 prisoners taken.
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Doolittle's raid - US bombers bomb Tokyo.
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The last American troops in the Phillipines surrender
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The USA defeated the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway and stopped the Japanese invasion. Following this victory, the US navy was able to push the Japanese back.
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Japanese forces land in Guadalcanal
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Allied landing in Dieppe fails.
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The German 6th army reach Stalingrad, the battle of Stalingrad begins.
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The German advance in Stalingrad is stopped.
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The 2nd battle of El Alamein in North Africa begins.
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The Russian flanking counter attack around Stalingrad begins
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Feb 2 - The last German forces in Stalingrad surrender
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The long North Africa campaign ends. The Allies control North Africa
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41 German U-boats sunk in 3 weeks. Doenitz retreats all U-boats from the North atlantic
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The battle of Kursk begins
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Mussolini is replaced and arrested
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The Germans know the Enigma was decoded, but believe the new types and procedures are safe again.
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The Allies invade Italy's mainland
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Italy surrenders. The German forces in northern and central Italy occupy it
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Allied anti submarine bases established in the Azores, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
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Rommel takes command of the "atlantic wall" in the French coast
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P-51 fighters provide all-the-way long range escort to bombers over Germany
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Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of western allies forces
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The Russians advance into the Ukraine
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May - Allied bombers begin to concentrate on the German fuel industry
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The United States and Allied troops invaded Normandy, France while Russia fought in the East.
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Battle of the Phillipine sea
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Warsaw revolts against the Germans
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Romania surrenders to the Russians. Its oil fields were Germany's only source of natural oil
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Operation Market Garden in Holland
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Athens is liberated
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Oct 20 - The Marines land in Leyte, in the Philippines. In response, the Japanese Navy begins to use Kamikaze suicide pilots.
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B-29 bombers begin to bomb Tokyo from bases in the Mariana islands
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The Russians reach Germany itself at the Oder river
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The Marines land in Iwo Jima
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The Allies occupy Cologne, Germany
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The Marines land in Okinawa. Japan orders all its forces to use Kamikaze suicide tactic
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The super battleship Yamato is sunk on its way to a Kamikaze fight in Okinawa
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President Roosevelt dies.
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American and Russian forces meet
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Germany surrenders. The war in Europe ends
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The US tests the atomic bomb in New Mexico; it works
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Hiroshima is destroyed by an atomic bomb
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Nagasaki is destroyed by an atomic bomb
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Japan surrenders. World War 2 finally ends.
