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some 15 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750 mile border
employing a military strategy known as the blitzkrieg armored divisions smashed through enemy lines -
Known as the fall of France
Was a two front war -
instead of breaking morale however the raids only organised the will of the British people for the rest of the war
Over 300 bombers escorted by 600 fighters -
providing U.S military aid of foreign nations during world war 2
authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which congress appropriated money to the government of any country whose defense the president terms vital to the defense of the U.S -
lasted 2 hours
destroyed nearly 20 american naval vessel -
congress approved a resolution declaring war with japan
the senate unanimously approved the resolution 88-0 -
88 minutes long
four days after the Japanese attacks on pearl harbor -
4.2 million killed
Nazi Germany and its allies fought the soviet union for control of the city -
On the morning of June 5, 1944, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe gave the go-ahead for Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history.
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an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
lasted June 4 threw June 7 1972
six months after pearl harbor
