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Japan is forced to officially surrenders and victory for the Allies is claimed

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The United States bombs Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Hitler and his girlfriend commit suicide because the thought of death was far less humiliating than surrendering and being captured.

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Victory for Europe and Germany`s surrendering.

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Alliances attack Germany and the invasion by land/sea/air results in the allies victory

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Hitler`s exploitation of captured areas lead to turn the world to Aryan race and eliminate any non-Aryan populations (Holocaust)

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The following extracts are taken from the diary of Anne Frank between 1942 and 1944, when she lived in hiding in Amsterdam with her family. The Franks were discovered, arrested and transported to Auschwitz on August 4th 1944.

July 8th 1942: "At three o'clock (Hello had left but was supposed to come back later), the doorbell rang. I didn't hear it, since I was out on the balcony, lazily reading in the sun. A little while later Margot appeared in the kitchen doorway looking very agitated. "Father has received a call-up notice from the SS," she whispered. "Mother has gone to see Mr. van Daan" (Mr. van Daan is Father's business partner and a good friend.) I was stunned. A call-up: everyone knows what that means. Visions of concentration camps and lonely cells raced through my head. How could we let Father go to such a fate? "Of course he's not going," declared Margot as we waited for Mother in the living room. "Mother's gone to Mr. van Daan to ask whether we can move to our hiding place tomorrow. The van Daans are going with us. There will be seven of us altogether." Silence. We couldn't speak. The thought of Father off visiting someone in the Jewish Hospital and completely unaware of what was happening, the long wait for Mother, the heat, the suspense - all this reduced us to silence.

July 9th 1942: "Here's a description of the building... A wooden staircase leads from the downstairs hallway to the third floor. At the top of the stairs is a landing, with doors on either side. The door on the left takes you up to the spice storage area, attic and loft in the front part of the house. A typically Dutch, very steep, ankle-twisting flight of stairs also runs from the front part of the house to another door opening onto the street. The door to the right of the landing leads to the Secret Annex at the back of the house. No one would ever suspect there were so many rooms behind that plain grey door. There's just one small step in front of the door, and then you're inside. Straight ahead of you is a steep flight of stairs. To the left is a narrow hallway opening onto a room that serves as the Frank family's living room and bedroom. Next door is a smaller room, the bedroom and study of the two young ladies of the family. To the right of the stairs is a windowless washroom with a sink. The door in the corner leads to the toilet and another one to Margot's and my room... Now I've introduced you to the whole of our lovely Annex!"

August 21st 1942: "Now our Secret Annex has truly become secret. Because so many houses are being searched for hidden bicycles, Mr. Kugler thought it would be better to have a bookcase built in front of the entrance to our hiding place. It swings out on its hinges and opens like a door. Mr. Voskuijl did the carpentry work. (Mr. Voskuijl has been told that the seven of us are in hiding, and he's been most helpful.) Now whenever we want to go downstairs we have to duck and then jump. After the first three days we were all walking around with bumps on our foreheads from banging our heads against the low doorway. Then Peter cushioned it by nailing a towel stuffed with wood shavings to the doorframe. Let's see if it helps!"

October 9th 1942: "Today I have nothing but dismal and depressing news to report. Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews. Miep told us about someone who'd managed to escape from there. It must be terrible in Westerbork. The people get almost nothing to eat, much less to drink, as water is available only one hour a day, and there's only one toilet and sink for several thousand people. Men and women sleep in the same room, and women and children often have their heads shaved. Escape is almost impossible; many people look Jewish, and they're branded by their shorn heads. If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed. Perhaps that's the quickest way to die. I feel terrible. Miep's accounts of these horrors are so heartrending... Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I'm actually one of them! No, that's not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and Jews."

October 20th 1942: "My hands still shaking, though it's been two hours since we had the scare... The office staff stupidly forgot to warn us that the carpenter, or whatever he's called, was coming to fill the extinguishers... After working for about fifteen minutes, he laid his hammer and some other tools on our bookcase (or so we thought!) and banged on our door. We turned white with fear. Had he heard something after all and did he now want to check out this mysterious looking bookcase? It seemed so, since he kept knocking, pulling, pushing and jerking on it. I was so scared I nearly fainted at the thought of this total stranger managing to discover our wonderful hiding place..."

November 19th 1942: "Mr. Dussel has told us much about the outside world we've missed for so long. He had sad news. Countless friends and acquaintances have been taken off to a dreadful fate. Night after night, green and grey military vehicles cruise the streets. They knock on every door, asking whether any Jews live there. If so, the whole family is immediately taken away. If not, they proceed to the next house. It's impossible to escape their clutches unless you go into hiding. They often go around with lists, knocking only on those doors where they know there's a big haul to be made. They frequently offer a bounty, so much per head. It's like the slave hunts of the olden days... I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while somewhere out there my dearest friends are dropping from exhaustion or being knocked to the ground. I get frightened myself when I think of close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruellest monsters ever to stalk the earth. And all because they're Jews."

May 18th 1943: "All college students are being asked to sign an official statement to the effect that they 'sympathize with the Germans and approve of the New Order." Eighty percent have decided to obey the dictates of their conscience, but the penalty will be severe. Any student refusing to sign will be sent to a German labour camp."

March 29th 1944: "Mr. Bolkestein, the Cabinet Minister, speaking on the Dutch broadcast from London, said that after the war a collection would be made of diaries and letters dealing with the war. Of course, everyone pounced on my diary."

February 3rd 1944: "I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway. I'll just let matters take their course and concentrate on studying and hope that everything will be all right in the end."

July 15th 1944: "It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too will end, that peace and tranquillity will return once more. In the meantime, I must hold on to my ideals. Perhaps the day will come when I'll be able to realize them."

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Extracts from the diary of Anne Frank (1942-44)

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The following extracts are taken from the diary of Anne Frank between 1942 and 1944, when she lived in hiding in Amsterdam with her family. The Franks were discovered, arrested and transported to Auschwitz on August 4th 1944. July 8th 1942: "At three o'clock (Hello had left but was supposed to come back later), the doorbell rang.

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Germany attack on Stalingrad is defeated and proves the Soviet Union to be a strong and unbeatable nation

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The Axis power (Japan, Germany, Italy) gained much territory in Europe. They spread their dominance

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Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president of the United States from 1940 to 1948. He was the main leader of the United States during WWII, and was the president who was at the start of the Cold War.

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Germany attacks France, and after it goes around the Maginot Line it takes control of France

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HIDEKI TOJO SPEECH ABOUT WAR AGAINST USA & UK with English subtitles

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Hideki Tojo expressed his determination at the outbreak of war against USA and UK.

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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, and so the United States officially gets involved in WWII.

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Hitler breaks the non-aggression act with the Soviet Union and attacks (operation Barbarossa)

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Stalin Speech about German Invasion to Soviet Union (1941)

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The Axis Power is formed, with Germany, Italy and Japan officially joining together.

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Hitler begins to bomb British cities but Churchill refuses to back down

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Germans have a new plan called the blitzkrieg, quickly and successfully taking Norway, Luxembourg, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands

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Hitler`s actions to attack Britain became noticed and Europe began to go get involved.

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Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII. He was very oppressive and got rid of all of his enemies, and had a secret police to watch the people. Although he and Hitler were allies at first, after Hitler attacked the Soviet Union Stalin led the Soviet Union against the Nazis, ultimately defeating them with the other allies.

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France and Britain declare war on Germany, but do no mobilize. Both nations make no war move for now, because they didn't want to start another war after WWI.

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September 1
Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union and Germany(Nazi-Soviet pact).The territory claimed is equally divided between the two nations.

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Leaders of Europe met (during the Munich conference) and Neville Chamberlain adopting the appeasement policies in response to Hitler`s advances

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Hitler invades  Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia and continues his rampage on the rest of Europe

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Adolf Hitler Speech and Liberation of Sudeten Germans (1938)

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Hideki was the Prime Minister of Japan during WWII. During his rule he invaded China to gain more political power and to settle political issues.

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Mussolini was a founder of  Fascism in Italy and he started to rule after WWI when Italy was weak from there loss. Because Italy felt powerless they wanted to expand and take over more places so they started with Ethiopia. Mussolini also started to use the same plan as Hitler where he invaded everything.

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Hitler was a strong speaker and a leader of the Nazi party when Germany was in a bad position.  He wanted to make Germany a major power in Germany and he started to do this by rebuilding the German military even though they were not supposed to.

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Hitler invades and takes over Austria and forces them to annex to Germany, giving him control over Austria.

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Japan invades China itself and their soldiers were no match for the better trained Japanese.

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Civil War spreads to Spain. Conservatives went against liberals/socialists. Germany aided the conservatives while continuing to evolve and advance in their tactics.

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Germany stacks up on military and enters Rhineland and claims it as its own

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Italy attacks Ethiopia, trying to claim the African country for itself.

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Hitler becomes chancellor and starts to rebuild its military regain strength to have it`d revenge and start to spread it`s empire by expanding and attacking small countries

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Japan invades Manchuria, an area rich in coal and iron. They seized the area and created a puppet government and Japanese engineers began building large mines and factories. This was the first "official' challenge directly towards the League of Nations.