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Germany Invades France

On May 10 1940 the German Invasion began.

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Germany Takes over Paris

On June 14 Germany invaded Paris and took it over.

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~400000 French and British troops were evacuated

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Major Port in WWII because it was the closest Canadian city to Europe.

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On December 7th 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor when the Americans were unprepared for this attack. Two days later U.S.A. joined the war in WWII

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On February 24 1942 Japanese Canadians were exiled to camps in British Colombia and were considered to be "aliens" becauase of the attack on Pear Harbour. There were about 12000 people that were sent to those camps. They lived in bad conditions and overcrowding occured in the camps.

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In July 1941 Hitler decided not to invade Moscow because he thought there was no was great importance according to him and beleived the destruction of the red army was more important.

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On January 7 1942 Hitler failed to invade Russia because of the weather conditions and underestimated the Soviet's will to fight.

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On September 1 1939 Poland was the first place Germany invaded in WWII.

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<img src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/nazi-invasion-poland.jpg" alt="Why the Invasion of Poland in 1939 Launched World War Ii | TIME">

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In 1941, Japan invaded the Philippines because they wanted to take over Southeast Asia because the US forces were there because of the Pear Harbour attack. The US was in the war and Japan was an enemy to them.

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The first atomic bomb to hit a place was Hiroshima, Japan. The US was the one to send the bomb to destroy Hiroshima. The bomb hit on August 6 1945, which destroyed the city and ended up being the first atomic bomb to be used at war.

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On February 13-15 1945, British bombers engulfed the city center in flames in Dresden. The US Air Force and the Royal Air Force heavily bombed Dresden on those days.

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Bombs were used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which led to a massive death count and negative concequences.

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Japan- Became a Parliamentary Democracy and focused on education and social reforms which made economic advance.

China- Mao takes power

USA grants independance to the Philippines

France tries to hang onto Vietnam which leads to Vietnam war

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Truman wants the UN to control all nukes. (1946)

Soviets test their first Atomic Bomb. (1949)

USA tests the first H-Bomb(1950)

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Many people fled USSR through Berlin to Western Eruope. Krushchev built a massive wall that is 100 miles long and 12 feet high with security 24/7.

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CIA plots tried killing Castro repeadedly but they kept failing miserably. It made USA look bad.

The Crisis occured when a USSR sub almost launched nukes, only one guy said no to not launching the nuke. They had the nuke ready to be launched. If the nuke was launched, it would have caused a nuclear war. Now a "hotline" was installed to prevent another catastrophe like this. Stanislav Petrov was the guy that prevented the nuclear was because he didn't press the button to shoot the nuke which would have caused a massive crisis for the entire world.

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CIA killing puppet leader of South Vietnam and then JFK was assinated 3 weeks later.

After JFK died the US millitary involvement in Vietnam. Fighting was brutal. Support for war was low in the USA. Martin Luther King Jr. was also assinated.

Nixon comes to power and increases millitary involvement then he withdrawls.

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October 4th 1957 the launch of "Sputnik" was the first satellite by USSR. The USA started fear of a technology gap. Spitnik 2 would launch a month later carrying a dog named "Lika" (She did not survive.) Yuri Gregarin was the first person in space.

USA created NASA. On July 20th 1969 Neil Armstrong was the first person on the moon. USSR cancels their own mission to the moon.

This led to the USR and USSR cooperating. This ended up being a friendly competition instead of a more toxic type of competition. The first man on the moon was a huge accomplishment for the world. Ever since then, technology has improved greatly because they are expecting to have the first man on Mars within the next decade.

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January of 1950, Stalin approves of the invasion of South Korea,

UN task force sent in to support the South.

The border did not change after the was but it showed how communism can be contained. There weren't any nukes used.

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On April 26th 1986 the explosion of the number 4 reactore of the Chernobyl power plant exploded. It led to many deaths and a high dose of radiation left behind in Chernobyl. It was the worst nuclear disaster to ever occur.

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Stalin dies in 1953. Kruschev who is the next Soviet leader who wanted to De-Stalinize the USSR.

He gave more freedom to satellite states in Iron Curtain.

He Greatly expanded the nuke and millitary capibilities.

He was an emotionaly unpredicatable leader due to anger outbursts.

USSR shot down a US U2 Spy plane which made the USA look very bad.

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The Berlin Blockade saw the Soviets stop all ground entry into Berlin. For about 15 months the West was airlifted supplies in, to the people of Berlin.

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Massive loans to countries after WWII to help ecnomy shield againts Communists. The Soviet Sattelite states weren't allowed to take part.

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USA's interational spy agency. Didn't associate with millitary and politicians. First operation was to prevent the Itlalian Communist party from gaining power.

Organized Anti-Communist Pilitics, bribes, rallies and does murders/assinations.

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Russian Rovloution 1917- Propaganda, terror, and Nationalism.

USSR weathered Great Drepression better than USA - Due to harsh conditions for people.

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Mao modelled his ruled after Stallin. purges, fear, starvation and death.

Mao conflicted with Krushchev in USSR. USA capitalized on this and improved on relations with China.

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Yorkton Regional High School, Gladstone Avenue North, Yorkton, SK

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Is it possible to contain or limit a political ideal or belief to a geographical area?

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Is it possible to contain or limit a political ideal or belief to a geographical area?

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No you can't really because now it tends to spread around fast due to social media. There are many news networks now that spread the information as soon as it comes out. Many other people share their opinions about it and it becomes controversial. Before it was easier to keep secret because there wasn't social media and only news papers and such. Now news journalists get on top of every story now and reports on it.