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Versailles Treaty
Twenty-seven countries met at Versailles, near Paris, to negotiate a peace settlement. Germany and Russia were not invited to this meeting. -
Battle of France
After the Battle of Flanders and the Allied withdrawal, Nazi Germany ordered 142 divisions southward with France attempting to defend. Their troops were delayed due to German air forces. -
Battle of Britain
Hitler made plans for an invasion that involved destroying Britain's Royal Air Force. -
Lend Lease
President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes Lend-Lease. It gave Britain and Canada fifty destroyers and ten Coast Guard cutters in return for leases on selected bases in the Western Hemisphere. -
Germans Invade Soviet Union -Operation Barbarossa
Germans attacked with a force of 160 divisions and were aided by Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, and Slovakian forces. Because of the Soviets bad positioning they had 1200 of their aircrafts destroyed.