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adolf hitler became chancellor
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World War II
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adolf hitler violated the versailles treaty
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munich conference, appeasment
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nazi-soviet pact
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world war 2 begin
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Blitzkrieg
Hitler launched his blitzkreig agianst holland and belguim -
French surrender
The French, Marshall Petain, signed an armistice with Germany taking France, which had been devastated, out of the war and into German occupation.? -
battle of britain
Night Bombing With the failure of daylight bombing raids Hitler began a series of nightly bombing raids on London and other important industrial cities.
The RAF defended the skies and by October 31 the raids had ceased. -
Operation Barbarossa
German infantry during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 -
alantic charter
The Atlantic Charter was drafted at the Atlantic Conference (codenamed Riviera) by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was issued as a joint declaration on 14 August -
pearl harbor
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. -
D-Day
The allies launched an attack on Germany's forces in Normandy, Western France. Thousands of transports carried an invasion army under the supreme command of general Eisenhower to the Normandy beaches. The Germans who had been fed false information about a landing near Calais, rushed troops to the area but were unable to prevent the allies from forming a solid bridgehead. For the allies it was essential to first capture a port -
fall of berlin
The final chapter in the destruction of Hitler's Third Reich began on April 16, 1945 when Stalin unleashed the brutal power of 20 armies, 6,300 tanks and 8,500 aircraft with the objective of crushing German resistance and capturing Berlin.
