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Hitler Invades Poland
August 1939 Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin signed the German soviet Nonaggression pact.Poland a nation to which Great Britain and France had promised military support if it was attacked by Germany. The pact with Stalin meant that Hitler would not face a war on two fronts once he invaded Poland, Hitler invaded Poland from the west, two days later France and Britain declared war on Germany, and that is what started World War II. -
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Germany invades Belgium
May 10th 1940 Germany invades Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Because of the failure of his appeasement policies, Churchill soon began conferring with U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt for aid to the British cause.The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war what would become the blitzkrieg strategy.British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns. Forming a coalition government, Winston Churchill replaces him -
Japan Attacks
Hundreds of Japanese warplanes, launched from aircraft carriers, attack the American Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Eight battleships, three light cruisers, three destroyers and four other naval vessels are either sunk or damaged. 164 American aircraft mostly on the ground, are destroyed. And 2,403 Americans are killed. On the day that Roosevelt would call a date which will live in infamy the Japanese also hit Guam, Wake Island, the Philippines, Malaya and Hong Kong. -
US strikes Japan
Americas first strike to Japan comes April 1942 launching the USS Hornet to bomb Tokyo in the Doolittle Raid. After a long streak of Japanese victories the U.S. Pacific Fleet won the Battle of Midway in June 1942, which proved to be a turning point in the war. -
The end of German troops
After a long string of Japanese victories, the U.S. Pacific Fleet won the Battle of Midway in June 1942, which proved to be a turning point in the war. It was known to be one of the deadliest battles of the war. The approach of winter, along with dwindling food and medical supplies, spelled the end for German troops there, and the last of them surrendered on January 31, 1943. -
End of WWII
At the Potsdam Conference of July-August 1945, U.S. President Harry S. Truman Churchill and Stalin discussed the ongoing war with Japan as well as the peace settlement with Germany. Post-war Germany would be divided into four occupation zones, to be controlled by the Soviet Union, Britain, the United States and France. On the divisive matter of Eastern Europe’s future, Churchill and Truman acquiesced to Stalin, as they needed Soviet cooperation in the war against Japan.
