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Despite the assurances given by Hitler in the Treaty of Munich (Sept 1938), he marched into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country.
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Blitzkrieg was the form of warfare with rapid operations and close cooperation between ground and air forces used by Germany in the campaign from 1939 to 1941 during World War II.
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On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland from the west. Two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning World War 2.
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September 17, Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east
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Hitler invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway.
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400,000 Allied soldiers in an area of Dunkirk and in a corridor that stretched 95 km inland, these soldiers were surrounded by German soldiers, who were numerically superior.
- May 24, Hitler ordered to not attack the Allied forces in the Dunkirk area.
-Evacuation plan, codenamed Operation Dynamo.
-338,000 British and French soldiers were evacuated and sent to England in 9 days.
-30,000 allied soldiers were killed.
-30,000 captured because of the battle in Dunkirk.
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This pact of mutual alliance was signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.
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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the reason why the USA joined WW2.
363 Japanese airplanes participated in a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Only 29 came back. Ca. 2500 American soldiers died.
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Britain and the United States declared war on Japan.
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The Japanese captured Singapore from the British, taking some 60,000 prisoners.
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The Russians won their first victory against Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad.
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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.
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The Liberation of Paris was a military battle that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944.
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- April in 1945, holed up 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 war ended in August 1945 and 40 million people had lost their lives
