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Germany invaded Poland.

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The invasion began as ordered. In response, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, at 11:00 AM and at 5:00 PM, respectively.

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The German offensive was launched by three army groups under the same commanders as in the invasion of France in 1940.

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The first operation, to which all six regular aircraft carriers, two battleships, three cruisers, and 11 destroyers were allocated, was to be a surprise attack, scheduled for December 7 on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet in its base at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands.

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In May also the Germans drove the Soviet defenders of the Kerch Peninsula out of Crimea; and on June 3 the Germans began an assault against Sevastopol, which, however, held out for a month.

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-On February 2 and had retaken Kursk on February 8. Thus, the Germans had to retreat from all the territory they had taken in their great summer offensive in 1942.
-The Germans made good their retreat to the Dnepr along the easier routes of the Black Sea littoral and were able, before the end of February 1943.

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Postponed from May, the western Allies’ “Operation Overlord,” their long-debated invasion of northern France, took place on June 6, 1944—the war’s most celebrated D-Day—when 156,000 men were landed on the beaches of Normandy between the Orne estuary and the southeastern end of the Cotentin Peninsula

By 9:00 AM on D-Day the coastal defenses were generally breached, but Caen, which had was scheduled to fall on D-Day and was the hinge of an Allied advance, held out until July 9

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Hitler still hoped to drove the Allies back and still adhered to his principle of concentrating on the war in the west. Late in 1944, therefore, he assembled on the Western Front all the manpower that had become available as a consequence of his second “total mobilization”: a decree of October 18 had raised a Volkssturm, or “home guard,”.

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Isolated and reduced to despair, Hitler married his mistress, Eva Braun, during the night of April 28–29, and on April 30 he committed suicide with her in the ruins of the Chancellery, as the advancing Soviet troops were less than a half mile from

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At midnight the war in Europe was officially over. The last inter-Allied conference of World War II, code-named “Terminal,” was held at the suburb of Potsdam, outside ruined Berlin.

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-August 2, 1945. It was attended by the Soviet, U.S., and British heads of government and foreign ministers: respectively.

-On August 8, the U.S.S.R. had declared war against Japan.