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Camps were an essential part of the Nazis' systematic oppression and mass murder of Jews, political adversaries, and others considered socially and racially undesirable. There were concentration camps, forced labor camps, extermination or death camps, transit camps, and prisoner-of-war camps.
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The two countries agreed to take no military action against teacher for the next 10 years.
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In an incident known as “Kristallnacht”, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.
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Poland was given a piece of land and Poland then gained access to the Baltic Sea.
German forces bombarded poland because Hitler wanted to Rule Puland and more territory -
Blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium,
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The British and French had responded to the original attack by putting into operation a plan to advance to the River Dyle, in Belgium. The Allies pushed their best forces, including the British, into Belgium. Although the initial stages went reasonably well, a French force advancing towards Breda, in Holland, was pushed back.
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More than 3000,000 British, Belgian and French soldiers were trapped between the attacking of Germans and the seas. Troops then retreated back in Dunkirk a sea port in the north of France.
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Royal Air Force fought back they sed new radar systems. Germans had to change their plans to invade GB. If GB was defeated then the US would be without an ally.
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Axis forces invaded the Soviet Union, destroyed most of the Soviet Air Force on the ground, and advanced deep into Soviet territory using blitzkrieg tactics to destroy entire Soviet armies.
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Forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast.
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Japanese occupation of key airfields in Indochina following an agreement between Japan and Vichy France, the U.S. froze Japanese assets on July 26, 1941, and on August 1 established an embargo on oil and gasoline exports to Japan.
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Japan comes and plans a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The mission for the Japanese was to destroy the American naval fleet anchor.
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Major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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Japanese navies in the north-central Pacific Ocean resulted from Japan’s desire to sink the American aircraft carriers that had escaped destruction which happened at Pearl Harbor.
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U.S. marines launched a surprise attack at end of the battle on February 9, 1943, the Japanese had lost two-thirds of the 31,400 army troops committed to the island,
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Between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers he battle is infamous as one of the largest, longest and bloodiest engagements in modern warfare
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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. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history
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The Nazis set fire for the Jewish places of worship which was called “Synagogues” the Nazis broke into Jewish homes, terrorized the people and destroyed their businesses. The night was called”Kristallnacht” or the “The Night of Broken Glass.”
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After bombing japan Truman decided to use the atomic bomb to spare the American lives that would have been lost if we had gone to war with Japan. US pilots dropped to bomb on Hiroshima then three days later another bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
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Settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia.
