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Germany invades poland
Germany attacks Poland by air and sea.
Within the country Hitler began setting up forces to annihilate all enemies of his Nazi ideology.
Later great Britain bombed Germany for three days straight. http://b200athens.blogspot.com/
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Germany Invades france
Paris woke up to the sound of German troops coming in and someone on a loud speaker setting a curfew. A new French government was made in the town of Vichy, which was in the unoccupied southern part of France. The Vichy government, under Marshall Henri Petain, declared neutrality in the war. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005181 -
Lend Lease
Proposed in 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. The act permitted the United States to support it's war interests without being overextended in battle http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/lend-lease-act -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted two hours, and was was devastating. More than 2,000 people were killed and another 1,000 wounded. -
United States declared war on Japan and Germany
President Franklin Roosevelt requests, and receives, a declaration of war against Japan. Within one hour of his speech, the president had his declaration of war, with one disagreeing vote, from a pacifist from montanna. FDR signed the declaration at 4:10 p.m. -
Germany declares war on the United States
Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America into the European war. Japan bombing Pearl Harbor surprised everyone even Germany. Although Hitler had made an unofficial agreement with his Axis partner Japan that Germany would join a war against the United States. -
Battle of Midway
the united states made major advances in code breaking making The battle of midway one of the most decisive battles during WWII.
the us was able to counter japans ambush and inflict major damage on the Japanese navy. allowing the us and its allies to move into an offensive position. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway -
Battle of Stalingrad
Starting in July of 1942 and ending on February 2 1943, the battle of Stalingrad stop the German advance into the USSR. One of the bloodiest battles in history It is considered to be the turning point in wwII nearly two million civilian and military casuality. it was also called the rat war because they had to rush from hole to hole. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad -
D-day
D-Day was the first day of the battle of Normandy. 156,000 allied forces landed on 5 beaches along a 5 mile stretch of Frances heavily fortified coast.A huge amphibious asault it was designed to mislead the Germans about their intended target
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The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In august 1945 the us dropped the worlds first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, japan 80,000 people were killed. Later thousands more would die from radiation exposure. three days later another another a-bomb was dropped in Nagasaki killing 40,000 more people. 6 days later japans emperor Hirohito declared an unconditional surrender and spoke of the devastating power of "a new and most cruel bomb'' -
Germany bombs London
Hitler wanted a neutralized Britain so that he could concentrate on his plans for the East, the invasion of the Soviet Union without interference. So for 57 nights they dropped bombs on them. British military units knew that the code word “Cromwell,” meant the German invasion had begun. Emergency broke out in England. Hitler’s key strategic blunders of the war was to underestimate the will of the British people.
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