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This was the day that Hitler announced his 'union' with Germany and Austria. He also annexed Austria into Germany. This lead to Chamberlain to fly out to try to stop a war break out before it could happen.
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This was the agreement between Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy. This would allow Germany the annexation of Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia
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Hitler ignored the treaty and invaded Czechoslovakia and took over the country
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Britain started arming Poland with an alarming system and helped give reassurance to Poland who was being threatened by the Fuhrer
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was a non-aggression pact that German and Russia would not attack each other for the next 10 years.
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Hitler invades Poland
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Britain and France agree to go to war on Germany
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Once Britain declared war on Germany but they saw no action for months
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He invades Denmark and Norway to secure supply routes of Swedish ore
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phoney war ends with the start of fighting
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Hitler launched lightning war on Holland and Belgium
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He resigns from too much pressure from the Labour members and the war itself
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Gort retreated to the coast of Dunkirk and then was later rescued
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Italy joins the axis powers to fight against the allies
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this took the devastated France into Germany power
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during July Hitler bombed Britain ports. he wanted to increase the speed and quality of the RAF
bombing in August lead to more damaged ports
on sept. 7 hitler heavily bombed London to hurt the peoples' morals
when day bombing became not as effective Hitler resorted to night bombing -
alliance signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan
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the Italian forces in N. Africa are routed by British troops
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the Japanese troops take over Singapore, taking 60,000 prisioners
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German and Italian troops invade Yugoslavia, Greece and the island of Crete
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USA defeated the Japanese navy
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They attack Russia by surprise and broke their agreement. US supplied aid to USSR
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the allies enter into N. Africa to fight of the german troops
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Japan attacks the US fleet in Hawii
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Britain and the US come together and declare war on Japan
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attacked the German troops through bombing them then went in with an armoured attack
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where the russians won their first victory against germany
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British and Us troops puch into N.Africa
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british and american forces defeated the axis powers in N. Africa
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british and american troops invade sicily
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allied troops won the land of sicily
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they surrendered then joined the allies
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stalin, roosevelt, and chirchill meet to form plans on how to defeat germany
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the seige of leningrad wass lifted by the Soviet Army
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allies finally were able to take back rome
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allies launched an attack on germanys forces in normandy
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british forces defeated and evicted japanese forces in burma
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paris was liberated from the germans
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the first V2 flying bombs killed people in london
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this was germans final defensive attack
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allies crossed the rhine while soviets approached from the east
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the russians reach berlin before the US
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FDR dies, followed by Truman
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italian people capture and kill him
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hitler kills himself in his bunker along with his mistress
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german troops surrender in italy
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germany surrenders in north west germany and in other countries as well
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hitlers successor offered unconditional surrender to allies
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victory in europe celebrated
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lost election to different morals of the Labours
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dropped atomic bomb that wiped out the whole city of hiroshima
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russia declared war and invaded manchuria
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atomic bomb #2 dropped on nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands
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japan unconditionally surrenders to allies
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US general accepts the surrender -> ending WWII