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Germany invades Poland
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WOMEN DURING WORLD WAR II
-Built weapons for war
-Rosie the riveter
-6 million women took jobs in factories
-3 million voluteered with the Red cross
-200,000 women served in the miliatry
-still restricted in combat zones
-WAC: Women's Army Corps
-WAVES: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency service
-WASP: Women Airforce Service Pilots
-the women wanted to keep their jobs but almost all of them were laid-off because after the war the need for war materials decreased and millions of men returned home from the military -
France and Britian declared war on Germany
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Germany invading
Germany invaded Denmark, Norway, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemborg all within a few weeks. -
Nazis invaded France
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Germans bombed Paris
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Pearl Harbor
Surprise attack by Japanense Navy on the US in Hawaii -
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Battle of Midway
VS. Japan -
Battle of Stalingrad
Germany's sixth army is lost -
D-Day
The allied expeditionary force under Dwight Eisnenhower lamds on coast of Northern France -
Hitler commits suicide
Hitler commits suicide just before the fall of Berlin -
Atomic bomb
US develops atomic bomb to use against Japan to force them to surrender, therefore ending the war.
