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Hitler and Stalin signed a non-aggression pact which included secret clauses for the division of Poland.
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The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation, the "Sudetenland"
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the invasion of Poland caught everyone's attention and britain came to help
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Despite the assurances given by Hitler in the Treaty of Munich (Sept 1938), he marched into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country.
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Hitler invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway to safeguard supply routes of Swedish ore and also to establish a Norwegian base
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Hitler launched his blitzkrieg (lightning war) against Holland and Belgium. Rotterdam was bombed almost to extinction.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, over 2,000 men died.
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The Russians won their first victory against Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad.
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British forces under General Slim, with help from guerrilla-fighting Chindits led by Orde Wingate, evicted the Japanese from Burma.
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The first V2 flying bombs killed three people in London.
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Germany launched its final defensive through the Ardennes region of Belgium. However, they were beaten back by the allies.
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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.
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President Roosevelt died. He was succeeded by President Truman.
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The Russians reached Berlin shortly before the US forces.
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Italian partisans captured Mussolini and executed him.
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German forces in Italy surrendered to the Allies.
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Victory in Europe was celebrated.
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Russia declared war on Japan and invaded Japanese-ruled Manchuria.
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The Japanese generals refused to surrender. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Hiroshima.
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The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Nagasaki as the Japanese had not surrendered following Hiroshima.
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The Japanese generals refused to surrender. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Hiroshima.
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The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Nagasaki as the Japanese had not surrendered following Hiroshima.
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The Japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allies ending the second world war.
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US General, Douglas MacArthur, accepted Japan’s surrender thus formally ending the second world war.
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Victory in Europe was celebrated.
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Hitler’s successor, Admiral Donitz, offerred an unconditional surrender to the allies.
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German forces in Italy surrendered to the Allies.1945
