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This invasion from Germany take place in Poland and plunged Europe into a war. -
(Winter 1939-1940) Soviet troops seized Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland. -
German forces overran Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Belgium. -
The German army invaded France, and Britain protected France, but the Germans managed to advance to the English Channel. -
Winston Churchill became Great Britain´s prime minister -
On the English Channel, the British navy launched a rescue effort, but finally, the French government surrendered to Germany. -
Hitler decided he must defeat the Britain airforce to be able to conquer England. Hitler ordered a massive air war. -
Hitler added the nations of the Balkans to the German Empire and turned against Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union. -
President Roosevelt established a top-secret project to develop an atomic bomb, it was called the Manhattan Project. -
He kept Britain´s morale up until U.S joined. He made sure that Britain remained an equal partner in the war. -
Because of Japan's necessity to expand its territory, Japanese planes bombed the U.S naval base at Pearl Harbor. -
One day after the Japanese attack, the U.S declared war on Japan, which lead to Germany declaring war to U.S. -
The Holocaust was Hitler´s solution of getting rid of the Jewish, by sending them to concentration camps and killing them. -
Allies invaded North Africa and there, they defeated German forces. -
This consisted of naval forces led by Admiral Chester A. There the Allies won the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
On October 20. They invaded the Philippines and by March 1945 they captured Manila, the capital of Philippines. -
General Dwight command the Allied troops to cross the English channel and broke the German lines and pushed them eastward. -
Allies invaded Italy and Hitler sent German troops to save Mussolini but the fighting continued and Italy surrendered. -
Hitler committed suicide on April 30,1945 -
The war in Europe was finally over when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945 -
The U.S. plane "Enola Gay" dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, since Japanese military leaders didn´t surrender. -
The Japanese government still didn´t surrender, so a second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. -
Japan finally surrendered after the two atomic bomb attacks on August 14, 1945 -
After the war, the Allies held war crimes trials in Nuremberg. There different leaders were tried for their war crimes.