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Hitler got arrested.
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Britain & France declare war on Germany
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Japan begin takeover of Manchuria, which is later renamed Manchukuo.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) is selected president of the United States.
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Hitler is a Chancellor in 1933
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Invaded Ethiopia by Italy
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Invasion of Poland by Germany. War Start.
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Untied states of America : Neutrality Act but President Theodore Roosevelt announced emergency declaration.
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Invasion of Poland by Russia
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Invasion of Manchuria by Japan
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Polish enermies lost the war.
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Invasion of Finland by Russia.
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Russia-Finland war ends. It convinces Hitler that the Russian military is ineffective.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
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Blitzkrieg
Hitler launched his blitzkrieg (lightning war) against Holland and Belgium. Rotterdam was bombed almost to extinction. Both countries were occupied. -
Germany invades France, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg. Winston Churchill becomes Britain's prime minister.
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Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
The British commander-in-chief, General Gort, had been forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk. The troops waited, under merciless fire, to be taken off the beaches. A call went out to all owners of sea-worthy vessels to travel to Dunkirk to take the troops off the beaches of Dunkirk. More than 338,000 men were rescued, among them some 140,000 French who would form the nucleus of the Free French army under a little known general, Charles de Gaulle. -
Evacuation of British and French forces to Britain at Dunkirk begins.
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Italy declares war on the collapsing France and on Britain.
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German troops march into Paris.
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The 'Battle of Britain' air campaign begins.
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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain comprised four phases:
1. During July Hitler sent his Luftwaffe bombers to attack British ports. His aim was also to assess the speed and quality of response by the RAF.?
2. During August the attacks on shipping continued but bombing raids were concentrated on RAF airfields.
3. The Blitz - From September 7th the city of London was heavily bombed. Hitler hoped to destroy the morale of the British people.
4. Night Bombing - With the failure of daylight bombing raids Hitle -
Churchill declares this is Britain's finest hour.
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Japan joins the 'axis'
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German troops enter their Ally Romania, Germany's only source of oil which is threatened by Russia.
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Spain rejects Hitler's offer to join the war and remains neutral.
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General Tojo becomes Japan's prime minister
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Pearl Harbour
The Japanese navy attacks Pearl Harbour and the Phillipines, and the US joins the war. With the German failure to defeat Russia, which is marked by their failure to take Moscow, and with the United States joining the war a day later, This date marks the main turning point of world war 2 -
Britain and US declare war on Japan
The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II. Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), and British Singapore. By April 1942, the Philippines, Indochina, and Singapore are under Japanese occupation.
