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Chamberlain’s policy of Appeasement - Sept. 30, 1938

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Chamberlain’s policy of Appeasement - Sept. 30, 1938

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The reason for this policy was to appease Hitler. This usually meant they were giving into Hitler's territorial demands. Neville Chamberlain's goal was to avoid war. He thought he could avoid war by negotiation, agreements, and diplomacy.

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Right before the war broke out, the enemies (Nazi Germany and The Soviet Union) decided to sign German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. Which essentially is where both countries agree to have no military actions for 10 years. They also agreed to eventually split up the eastern part of Europe.

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Germany invaded Poland to regain lost territory and to rule the land to the East. The invasion was an example of how Hitler intended to wage war. This became known as the "blitzkrieg" strategy.

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Adolf Hitler loved Disney.

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While most of France was at war with Germany, British troops were evacuating Dunkirk and going back home. With Britain leaving they were worried that the Germans would come to invade them. United states then became worried that they would get invaded because there's on one channel separating them.

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Battle of Britain -July 10-Oct. 31, 1940

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Battle of Britain -July 10-Oct. 31, 1940

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The Battle of Britain was between Britain's Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe, Nazi Germany's air force. This was the first battle fought in the air. At the end of this battle when France fell to Germany, Hitler began to plan an invasion by land and sea to Great Britain.

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At around 8:00 am the Japanese planes took off and dropped bombs. The bombs destroyed/damaged nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. The day after the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt requested that Congress need to declare war on Japan.

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The attack on pearl harbor lasted two hours. Since defenders were going in from all different directions, they didn't know what direction they should fire from.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the the Executive Order, talking about the consequences of WW11 for Japanese Americans. After the Pearl Harbor bombing, Roosevelt came in with a lot of pressure with the military and the civilians.

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Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps - Densho

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How did Japanese interment camps begin?

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Once the Battle of El Almein ended it marked the beginning of the end of the axis in North America. The field Marshal was defeated by the British Eighth army and allies were broken and they were left with not enough support.

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Operation Torch resulted from an uneasy compromise between Western Allies. The intention was to relieve pressure from the Axis forces in the region on the Soviet Union. It was also to enable an invasion of Southern Europe in 1943.

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The Siege of Leningrad was also known as the 900-day siege. It actually lasted 872 days, but it resulted in the death of some of the one million civilians in the city and Red Army defenders.

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How many days did the Siege of Leningrad last?

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Many historians would consider this battle to be the best one of the entire conflict. It stopped the Germans from gaining power over the Soviet Union. It also marked the turning of the war in favor of the allies. Hitler wanted to destroy the Soviet Union in the south and he tried everything to achieve that.

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The Bataan Death March was a forced march of 70,000 U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines. Starving and ill prisoners were forced to march 63 miles to a prison camp from the southern end of the Bataan peninsula.

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The navy air force started creating big bombs for the battle. Japan realized that the US. had the upper hand and Japan would be in critical conditions for their plans in the central pacific. Also at the time Japan and The US are kinda getting into it overland so this is causing a lot of confrontation.

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The "Island hopping" plan lasted for three years and it led the US military in a full circle around the Pacific Islands. This occurred during the battle of midway. The intent of island hopping was to bypass heavily fortified enemy islands instead of trying to capture every island in sequence in their route.

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What is island hopping?

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The empire of Japan employed the Kamikazes bombs for the first time. The plan of using these bombs was to just do as much damage in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. This was the largest naval battle in history and it took place in the pacific ocean close to the Philippines.

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https://www.britannica.com/summary/Bataan-Death-March#:~:text=Bataan%20Death%20March%20%2C%20(April%201942,km)%20to%20a%20prison%20camp.

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Bataan Death March , (April 1942)Forced march of 70,000 U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war (World War II) captured by the Japanese in the Philippines. From the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, the starving and ill-treated prisoners were force-marched 63 mi (101 km) to a prison camp. Only 54,000 prisoners lived to reach the camp; up to 10,000 died on the way and others escaped in the jungle. In 1946 the Japanese commander of the march was convicted by a U.S. military commission and executed.

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Bataan Death March , (April 1942)Forced march of 70,000 U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war (World War II) captured by the Japanese in the Philippines. From the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, the starving and ill-treated prisoners were force-marched 63 mi (101 km) to a prison camp.