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Hitler unifies German speaking people. Annexed Austria, liberated German people in Sudetenland.
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Axis powers met in Munich. distributed power
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Hitler invades czechoslovakia
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Radars installed at each coast. threatened by fuhrer
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hitler and Stalin sign non aggression pact (secret clauses for Poland)
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Britain had no military action
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Hitler invades Poland
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Britain and France declared war on Germany
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british routes Italians in North Africa by general wave
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Italian forces in North Africa were routed by the British led by General Wavell.
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German and Italian troops attacked Yugoslavia, Greece and the island of Crete. German field Marshall Erwin Rommel led the axis powers back to North Africa.
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hitler invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway so safeguard supply routes of Swedish ore
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lightning war against holland and Belgium. Rotterdam was bombed to extinction
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Chamberlain under pressure from labour members for a more active prosecution
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General Gort (British commander-in-chief) forced to retreat to the coast of Dunkirk. more than 338,000 men rescued
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Italy enters the axis powers
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Fance signs armistice with Germany
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1) sent Luftwaffe bombers to British ports
2)attacks remained but bombing stopped
3)London was heavily bombed on September 7th
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pact of mutual alliances was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan
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This pact of mutual alliance was signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.
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Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia, Greece, and Crete. E. Rommel led axis powers back to North Africa
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Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia. The Russians were taken by surprise as they had signed a treaty with Germany in 1939. Stalin immediately signed a mutual assistance treaty with Britain and launched an Eastern front battle that would claim 20 million casualties. The USA, which had been supplying arms to Britain under a ‘Lend-Lease’ agreement, offered similar aid to USSR.
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The Japanese, who were already waging war against the Chinese, attacked the US pacific fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, as a preliminary to taking British, French and Dutch colonies in South East Asia.
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Britain and the United States declared war on Japan.
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The Japanese captured Singapore from the British, taking some 60,000 prisoners.
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The USA defeated the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway. Following this victory, the US navy was able to push the Japanese back.
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The Russians won their first victory against Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad.
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General Alexander was given a hand-written directive from Churchill ordering that his main directive was to be the destruction of the German-Italian army commanded by Field-Marshall Rommell together with all its supplies and establishments in Egypt and Libya. As soon as sufficient material had been built up, Alexander handed the campaign over to General Montgomery.
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British and American forces under the command of General Dwight Eisenhower landed in the NW of Africa and assumed control of French Morocco and Algeria. They gradually closed in on the Germans.
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Montgomery attacked the German-Italian army in North Africa with a massive bombardment followed by an armoured attack. He then proceeded to chase the routed enemy some 1500 miles across the desert.
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British and US forces invaded Sicily.
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The allied troops had won the island of Sicily.
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Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met to co-ordinate plans for a simultaneous squeeze on Germany. They also discussed post war settlements. Churchill mistrusted Stalin; Roosevelt anxious to show that the West would not stand against Russia, went along with Stalin’s wishes for a second front in France and no diversions further east. Churchill was over-ruled and the fate of post-war Eastern Europe was thus decided.
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The British and American forces managed to defeat the Axis forces in North Africa
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Mussolini had been thrown out of office and the new government of Italy surrendered to the British and the USA. They then agreed to join the allies. The Germans took control of the Italian army, freed Mussolini from imprisonment and set him up as head of a puppet government in Northern Italy. This blocked any further allied advance through Italy.