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Germany invades Poland
On September 1,1939 Germany invades Poland causing the beginning of World War II. The Soviet Union also annexd the Baltic states.
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Germany invades France
Germany invaded France on May 10,1940. The British and the French thought that the German were going to attack through central Belgium.
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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a very important battle because it is the first the Germany lost. The British were very well equipped and were ready to fight.
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Lend Lease
Proposed in late 1940, and passed in March 1941. The Lend and Lease Act was the principal mean for providing U.S military aid to foregin nation during WWII.
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Germany Invades Soviet Union
Under code name "Operation Barbarossa", Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 in the largest German military operation of WWII.
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Operation Barbarossa
On June 22,1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. Three army groups with over thee million people and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier.
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Pearl Harbor
On December 7,1941 Japan made a surprise attack on Hawaii. This attack wiped out nearly 90% of the Pacific forces.
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Germany declares war on the U.S
This act made America, a neutral country, into the conflict. Germany and Japan had made a plan to go against the United States.
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Bataan death March
U.S surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon. Aproxemitly 75,00 Pilipino and american troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous a 65-mile march to prison camps.
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Battle of Midway
Six months after the Pearl Harbor attack , the U.S defeted Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of WWII. The U.S was able to preempt and counter Japan's planned ambush.
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Residentas of the Jewish ghettos staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination. This lead to other revolts thougout Germany.
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D-Day
During WWII resulted in the Allied liberation of Western European from Nazi's Germany. 156,000 American, British and Canadian fources a=landed on five beaches along a 50-mlie strech of France.
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Liberation of Concintration Camps
On July 23,1944 Soviet soilders were the first to liberate prisioners from concintration camps. On January 27,1945 the entered Auschwitz and found prisoners living in terrible conditions.
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Battle of Bulge
The Battle of Bugle was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
On by February 1945 three U.S marine divisions landed on the island. Iwo Jima was defended 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During WWII an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over Japan. The explosion killed out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people.
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