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Hitler wanted to unify all German speaking people. He annexed Austria and wanted to liberate the German people from Czechoslovakia.
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Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier of France, and Mussolini agreed Hitler should have the Sudetanland of Czechoslovakia.
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Despite assurances given by Hitler in the Treaty of Munich he invaded Czechoslovakia.
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Britain began rearming and had a secret radar.
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Hitler and Stalin signed a non-aggression pact which divided Poland.
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Months following Britain's declaration of war.
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Invaded Poland.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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Hitler invaded to safeguard supplies and naval blockades.
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British forces led by General Wavell routed Italian forces in N. Africa.
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War against Holland and Belgium.
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He resigned after pressure from Labour members and Churchill. became the head of wartime government. He supported Churchill. Bevin was given minister of labour and recruited factory and coal workers. Lord Beaverbrook, ramped up production of fighter aircraft.
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British and France were forced to retreat to the beaches under fire. 338,000 men were rescued among them were troops under Charles de Gaulle.
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Italys motive was for rich pickings from the spoils of the war.
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France wanted peace with Germany.
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Hitler trying to invade Britain.
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Mutual alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Yugoslavia, Greece, and Crete were attacked by Italian and German troops. Axis powers were led back to N. Africa by German field Marshall Erwin Rommel.
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He sent many soldiers and supplies and took the Russians by surprise. 20 million casualties. US offered arms support to USSR.
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Japanese attacked.
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Declared war.
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Captured from the British taking 60,000 soldiers.
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Defeated Japanese
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Was to destroy German supplies and establishments.
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Russians won 1st victory against Germany,
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American & British forces under General Dwight Eisenhower landed in NW Africa and gained control of Algeria & French Morocco. Gradually got closer to the Germans
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Attack on German base.
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US &. British forces invade Sicily.
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Allied. Troops won the island of Sicily.
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A simultaneous squeeze was put on Germany after Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met. Post war settlements. were discussed. Churchill did not trust Stalin; Roosevelt wanted to show the West would stand with Russia and backed their wish for a 2nd front in France. Churchill was trumped and the fate of post-war Eastern Europe was developed.
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American and British forces defeated the Axis forces in N. Africa.
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New government of Italy surrendered to the US and Britain after Mussolini was thrown out of office. Italy joined the allies. The Italian Army was taken over by the Germans who freed Mussolini and gave him control of a puppet government in Northern Italy. This stopped any allied advancement through Italy.
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Soviet Union lifted the siege of Leningrad.
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Italy surrendered in September, but took to June for the allies to liberate Rome from Germany.
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General. Slim of Britain and the guerrilla-fighting Chindits evicted Japanese from Burma.
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Germans launched final defensive attack in Ardennes region of Belgium. But they were pushed back by the allies.
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Allies attack German forces in Normandy, France. General Eisenhower commanded invasion on Normandy beaches. Germans thought the troops were going to land in Calais. Allies formed a solid bridgehead and was essential to capturing the port.
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Liberated from Germans.
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Three people in London killed by first V2 flying bombs.
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While Soviet forces approached Berlin from the East the Allies crossed the Rhine.
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Roosevelt dies and Truman was his successor.
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Shortly ahead of the US forces, Russians reach Berlin.
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Executed by Italian partisans.
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Committed suicide with his mistress/wife, Eva Braun in his bomb shelter.
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German forces stationed in Italy surrender to the Allies.
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German forces in Denmark, Holland, and NW Germany surrender on Luneburg Heath to Montgomery. Hitler nominated Admiral Donitz as his successor, and he attempted to surrender to Western allies but wished to continue the fight with Russia. The request was denied.
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Admiral Donitz, successor to Hitler, made an unconditional surrender to allies.
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Europe victory was celebrated.
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Clement Attlee of the the Labor Party beat Churchill in the election. Labour Party promised great social reform, nationalization of coal and railways, and the birth of a welfare state. They gained 393 seats to 213 for Conservative party. The men and women of the armed forces did not wish to resume civilian life with the conditions present when they entered duty and the Labor Party promised a change thus a landslide victory for the LP happened.
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The US dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima because the Japanese generals would not surrender.
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Russia invaded Japanese controlled Manchuria and declared war on Japan.
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The Japanese did not surrender after they were bombed so the US dropped another Atomic Bomb, this time on Nagasaki.
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WW2 ends when Japanese forces surrender unconditionally to the allies.
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WW2 was formally ended when Douglas MacArthur, US General accepted the Japanese surrender.