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Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass)
-A German embassy official murdered in Paris by Polish-Jewish radical
-This provoked Germans and led to brutal attack on German Jews
-7000 Jewish shops were looted and 20000 Jews were arrested -
Hitler seizes all of Czechoslovakia
-Britain and France singed an appeasement document to let hitler take over Sudetenland in exchange for Hitler to stop taking territory
-However, this attempt at stopping hitler did not work and he continued taking over Czechoslovakia -
Miracle of Dunkirk
-British and Canadian troops were sent to defend France from the German invasion
-Germans advance rapidly into France and the Allies were trapped
-France fell in 6 weeks
-They evacuated to Dunkirk where British troops were saved but most equipment was left in France -
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Battle of Britain
-For Germany's invasion Britain they devised a plan with 3 parts: Phase 1: Bomb communications and transportation and take control of air, Phase 2; Bomb coastline, Phase 3:send groups of troops to invade -
D-Day
-General Eisenhower led Allied forces to storm the beaches of Normandy with 2 million troops
-Paratroopers were dropped on the day of invasion and bombers began to destroy German forces on the beach of Normandy
-Canadas largest military operation -
Japan Surrenders
-American President Truman gave one last to the Japanese to surrender or otherwise face destroyed
-The American bomber plane known as the Enola Gay, was carrying an atomic bomb ready to be dropped on Hiroshima
-60% of city was destroyed and 71000 died
-Japan was still stubborn to surrender when they were hit by their second atomic bomb 3 days later in Nagasaki,35000 died
