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August 1939

on-aggression pact with the Soviet Union Meant to keep Britain from entering a war

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September 1939

German blitzkrieg overruns Poland

Quick German victory

Britain & France

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Summer of 1940 – May 1941

German Luftwaffe makes nightly bomb raids over Great Britain

New technology (Enigma, Radar) allow British RAF to hold off Germany and prove Hitler can be stopped

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une 1941

Germany breaks non-aggression pact & invades the Soviet Union

Soviet Union uses Scorched Earth Policy and holds back Germany at Leningrad

Germany moves on to Moscow and Stalingrad

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August 1942 – February 1943

Germany wanted to seize oil fields and capture Stalingrad

German troops surrender to the Soviet Union due to starvation and cold