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The Nazi Invasion of Poland in 1939 With the Nazi Invasion of Poland in 1939, World War II started.
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Because Britain and France were allies of Poland, they declared war on Germany.
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The Canadians decided to go to war against Germany due to the fact that they supported Britain and France. Although they were unprepared and only volunteers went overseas, they still wanted to fight with heart,
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On this day in , Soviet Russia wanted Russia to cease to exist. They tried doing this with the invasion and occupation of eastern Poland.
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After attempts to negotiate the stationing of Soviet troops in Finland failed, Joseph Stalin ordered the Red Army to invade Finland on this date.
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German Invasion on Norway and Denmark, 1940 On this day, thousands of German troops were deployed and occupied Norway. At the same time, troops also occupied Copenhagen and other Danish cities.
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With this invasion, Germany got Holland and Belgium to surrender. France surrendered a month later.
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Also known as the Baltic States, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were all invaded but the Soviets.
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The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan signed in Berlin. It was a defensive military alliance that was eventually joined by Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, as well as by the German client state of Slovakia.
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This invasion was the invasion of Greece by Germany with the help of Italy.
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Yugoslavia surrendered and was divided, with the exception of the puppet state of Croatia, between the four invading Axis powers.
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The invasion of the Soviet Union was the largest Germany military operation of WWII.
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Russian officers and non-commissioned officers who were brought there have been chosen to die by gas in order to experiment with a new type of war gas that is to be used on the Eastern Front.
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Around this time, the Empire of Japan occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
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(Certain Date Was Not Founded) This was a campaign that people wanted so they could defeat Germany with bombs.
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The US forces capturing this island was their first step into invading Japan.
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This raid was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe. They ended up retreating 5 hours later. Thousands of these men were Canadian. This led to the Germanys being victorious in this raid.
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(Date Not Specified) Australian troops went over to the attack and slowly drove north towards Kokoda.
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On this day, the German's surrendered even though Hitlet said "Surrender is out of the question,"
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Russian tanks defeated Germans due to the fact that they were much stronger in terms of their armoury and the amount of tanks they had.
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The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers. The Canadians helped with this attack and became victorious.
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The Battle of Ortona was a small but extremely great battle fought between a battalion of German paratroops and Canadian forces. The Canadians came out victorious.
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Allies invade Normandy to begin the liberation of France
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This day holds the landing operation of the Allied Invasion of Normandy. It is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
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Germany loses more and more of their battles.
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The Nazi's Concentration camps were liberated by the Russian army at this time.
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US troops capture Okinawa, the first of the Japanese “home islands.”
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The Russians were able to invade Berlin by this time. Also around this time, Hitrler committed suicide in a Berlin Bunker.
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Victory in Europe Day occured from that day on because of the Germans finally surrendering after a long fierce war,
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Atomic bombs are dropped on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Japan surrenders on this date and the war ends.
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