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September 1st, 1939: After signing a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union. Germany decides to invade Poland on September 1st 1939.  Two days later, on September 3rd, The Allied Powers declared the war on Germany. The German army was clearly superior, and Poland could barley defend itself. To make the situation worst, on September 17th, the USSR invaded the east side of Poland. Not being able to defend itself, on October 6th, Poland surrendered.

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Sep 3, 1939 – May 8, 1945: The Battle of the Atlantic was the struggle between the Allied and German forces for control over the Atlantic Ocean. The Allies wanted to use the Atlantic to resupply Great Britain and the Soviet Union in their fight against Germany and Italy and the Axis Powers wanted to stop them. The Battle of the Atlantic could have represented Germany's best chance to defeat the Western powers. The Allies did win against Germany and Germany lost at a great cost.

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May 10, 1940 – June 25, 1940: After the Invasion of Poland, the France was trying to be prepared for anything that might come there way. Although they thought they were by blocking their borders, their security was not enough because the German invaded France through the Ardennes Forest near southern Belgium. The German forces caught France by surprise and moved in a quick pace and forced the French and British forces in the north to retreat to a group in Dunkirk and await an opportunity to evacuate to England. At the end of the Battle of France, Nazi Germany took over direct control of the northern half of France and created a puppet-state in the south called Vichy France. The battle of France was significant because Germany would use the northern parts of France to help carry out its bombing runs during the Battle of Britain and this was a major turning point for WW2

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May 26, 1940 – Jun 4, 1940: Germany invaded France and the Low Countries, pushing the British Expeditionary Force and French and Belgian troops back to the French port of Dunkirk. As the Allies were losing the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defense and evacuation of British and other Allied forces to Britain. Then Dunkirk finally fell to the German army and ended when the allies surrendered.

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July 10, 1940 – October 31, 1940: Hitler was feeling so victorious of conquering Poland and France and though he could do the same with Britain.  The German air force(Luftwaffe), started by attacking British planes and ships. Since France and Poland were allies with Britain, both the countries helped out France go to war against Germany. Britain had Royal Air Force which was a big help because it was able to defend Britain because it had better equipment and planes. Because Germany was mad Britain bombed Berlin, Germany bombed and attacked London for 57 straight nights. Germany then realized they will not be able to win this battle so then they later surrendered.

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July 10, 1943 - May 2, 1945: The Allies who agreed to help had landed on the island of Sicily in the south of Italy. They decided to use Italy (which was aligned with Germany) as a platform to attack enemy territory in Europe and help divert German resources from the Eastern Front. The campaign ended when Army Group C surrendered unconditionally to the Allies one week before the formal German Instrument of Surrender.

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June 22, 1941 – December 5, 1941: Germany hoped to win a quick victory so they decided to send more than 3 million German and Axis troops to invaded the soviet union. Germany aught the Red Army off guard which lead them to be unprepared which gave Germany an early advantage. Germany did take many soviet troops as prisoners and killed many of them but the entire operation had suffered from a lack of long-term strategic planning. Since Germany wasn't strong enough to take Leningrad by itself, they decided to starve it instead. Since Russia has a tough terrain they failed and they had also underestimated the strength of the Soviet resistance.

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Attack of Pearl Harbor                                                                                                              

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Attack of Pearl Harbor                                                                                                              

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December 7, 1941: Japan had planned a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor that badly damaged US naval vessels, battleships, destroyed 300 US aircraft, and killed 2,403 men. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto spent months planning that attack to aim to destroy the Pacific Fleet and destroy morale in the U.S. Navy. The reason they wanted to do this was so that the US would not be able to fight back as Japanese forces began to advance on targets across the South Pacific. The Pearl Harbor attack had left the base’s with oil storage depots, repair shops, shipyards and submarine docks intact. This attack from Japan had worsen the relationships between them and the United States for a long time.

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Dec 8, 1941 – Dec 25, 1941: After the Attack  of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese 38th division attacked Hong Kong. They bombed the colony's airfield and other military installations and quickly overran the troops defending the mainland portion of the territory. After five days of fighting, Kowloon and the mainland fell to the Japanese and Japan had victory.

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August 23, 1942 – February 2, 1943: German troops had planned and wanted to take control of the city Stalingrad because they thought if they conquered Stalingrad, they could have control over Russia. Hitler thought since Stalingrad had Stalin's name he could gain control from this. The Battle of Stalingrad was then won by the Soviet Union against the German during World War II.

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June 4, 1942 – June 7, 1942: The Battle of Midway was a turning point for both Japan and the United States. Japan hoped to defeat the US Pacific Fleet and use Midway as a base to attack Pearl Harbor, securing dominance in the region and then forcing a negotiated peace. The battle began when an aircraft from Japanese carriers attacked and damaged the US base on Midway. The US then destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots and won victory.

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June 6, 1944: This attack began when Allied planes and warships bombarded German positions along the coastline to damage the defenses making it easier for the troops to get ashore. This landing broke the supposedly unbreakable Atlantic wall and allowed the Allies to successfully complete the liberation of Western Europe. This invasion the allied forces launched was the largest amphibious invasion in history. After the victory in Normandy, Paris was liberated in August 1944 as the Allies pushed slowly eastward and the Soviet Union moved toward Berlin as well.

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May 7, 1945: The German High Commander, Alfred Jodl, signed a document unconditionally surrendering all German military forces, to take effect the following day, thereby all but ending World War II in Europe. There was many reasons for this surrender one being that their people were being starved to death and many were relieved the war has came to an end.

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August 6, 1945: The bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki was a big contribution to the end of WW11. These bombings were from the United States towards Japan and was the first use of atomic bombs to be ever used on people. The effects were really drastic, it killed tens of thousands of people and obliterated the cities. Some of the main causes for these bombings were to bring the war with Japan to a speedy end and spare American lives and to demonstrate the new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviet Union.

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August 19, 1942: Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin demanded a second front be opened in the west to divert German war material and troops away from Russia. Dieppe is not the place for an invading army, the beach is not made of sand instead its covered in stones, making it hard for running on and landing heavy equipment. The Allies however decided to mount a major raid on the French port of Dieppe to test new equipment, and gain the experience and knowledge necessary for planning a great amphibious assault that would one day be necessary to defeat Germany.

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September 2, 1945: Japanese surrender is officially signed in Tokyo. The Japanese surrender marks the official end of the World War II.