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Germany invaded Poland with letal force and Polands allies were brought into the war.
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Its a war, Its World War II. Or something like it.
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Winston Churchill is elected the new prime minister of Great Britian.
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German forces move into France and soon end up taking over France. (French troops surrender quickly)
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The battle of Britian was Germanys attempt to have air superiority over the RAF and eventually fail to take over Britian.
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The United States plan of giving aid to country that could not function well without a flow of money. Later They would have to pay Money lended back to the US.
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Hitler decided to attack the Balkans. He was met by resistance by Greece and from Yugoslavia. Both Greece and Yugoslavia surrender quickly.
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Stalin requested land from FInland and was refused. He soon attacked Finish troops and carried heavy causilties due to the lack of training and the cold. Eventually the two sign a treaty.
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The "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war) was a military tactic that involved a fast movement of troups and constant bombardment from the air. This was used on Russia and pushed the Russian troops back ~600miles.
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The Japanese launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Sets the US in war with Japan.
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The mass murder of millions of Jews in German concetration camps during WWII
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F.D.R. aprroves the use of internment camps for the Japanese living in America.
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The Battle of Midway was known as the turning point in the Pacific. This time the Allies were on the offensive and the Japanese on defense.
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First major Allied offensive against Imperial Japan. US took over very quickly.
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The German Army surrounded the city and tried to fight throught the Russian lines. The Russians eventually got renforcements and took back the city.
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The Tehran Conference was a meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. Met up to plan offensive against Nazi Germany.
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The Battle of El Alamein was fought in the deserts of North Africa. The Battle of El Alamein was primarily fought between two commanders of WWII, Montgomery and Rommel. The Allied victory at El Alamein lead to the retreat of the Afrika Korps and the German surrender in North Africa in May 1943.
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Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944 when 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region in an attempt to take and breach Nazi Forces in France.
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McArthur was a US general that commanded and planned operations in the Philipines. His plans were highly successful and well planned.
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The exact date of when the cold war started is unknown. It was called the "cold war" because it wasn't actually a war but rather an arms and space race between the Soviet union and the United States with tension.
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world.
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F.D.R. dies from a stroke.
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Mussolini and his mistress had been hung upside down outside the forecourt of a Milan garage.
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In a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.
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The "Big Three" leaders met at Potsdam, Germany, near Berlin. The last of the World War II conferences, President Truman, Stalin and Churchill discussed post-war arrangements in Europe
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First atomic bomb dropped in hopes of ending WWII.
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The second atomic bomb dropped on Japan which ulitmatly ended WWII
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After the war, nations agreed to form a united union in which they could have equal power and decide equally among certian political issues.
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These trials were held to convict the Nazi generals and commanders for plotting and executing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The Marshall plan was a U.S.-sponsored program that was designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries to create stable conditions.
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The Soviets had cut off supplies and nothing was allowed in. Berlin was in a critical need of supplies and turned to the west for help. The west delivered supllies through air drops and the blockade was soon lifted.
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The Berlin was built to serperate East and West Berlin. The wall symbolized the split between Democracy and Communism.
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This was a 13 stand off between the Soivets and the US due to the missiles placed in Cuba. The two super powers were both ready to use letal force if needed and the world was scared that there was going to be a nuclear war.
