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Beginning of the War Hitler takes over Poland
Czechoslovakia gives in to Adolf Hitler. The country was overwhelmed by Hitlers forces. Although the Czechs had invited the Germans very kindly when they entered the Sudetenland months before, they stood quietly in sadness when the Nazis entered Prague. -
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Canada Declares War On Germany
When Great Britain declared war it did not automatically bring Canada into it, as it had been the case in 1914. But there was never really any serious doubt about Canada’s response to was: the government and people combined in support of Britain and France. After Parliament debated the matter, Canada declared war on Germany on 10 September. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King made a promise that only people who volunteered would serve overseas in the war. -
The Bombing Of Pearl Harbor
The bombing of Pearl Harbor is when at 7:55 AM on a Sunday Japanese warplanes launched from aircraft carriers deep in the sea to attack the American fleet that was anchored at Pearl Harbor. 8 Battleships including the U.S.S. Arizona 3 light cruisers 3 destroyers and more naval vessels have been sunk or damaged. -
The Bombing Of Hiroshima
On August 6 1945, the Americans dropped a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was the very first of its kind of bomb to be used because it was a nuclear weapon that had been deployed in warfare and the bomb immediately killed 80,000 people showing how powerful, and deadly they are. Tens of thousands more would die to radiation exposure. -
The Allies Plan Invasion On Japanese Mainland
On November 1st 1945 the Allies made a plan called operation Downfall. This was a plan to invade the Japanese mainland towards the end of WWII.
