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https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/invasion-poland-september-1939

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December 7, 1941,

Japan launches a surprise attack on American soil at Pearl Harbor

The United States then declares war

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https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-ii-battles-timeline#Battle-of-the-Atlantic:-September-3-1939-to-May-8-1945

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Midway Atoll, United States Minor Outlying Islands

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Battle of Midway

Seven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor

American and Japanese forces clashed over Midway Atoll

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https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-ii-battles-timeline#Battle-of-the-Atlantic:-September-3-1939-to-May-8-1945

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World War II Battles: Timeline | HISTORY

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Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the next six years, the conflict took more lives and destroyed more land and property around the globe than any previous war. See a timeline of the war’s battles.

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Battle of Moscow

October 2, 1941 to January 7, 1942

Following Germany's Operation Barbarossa, an invasion of the Soviet Union, the Axis launches a campaign to capture the capital city of Moscow before winter sets in.

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https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-ii-battles-timeline#Battle-of-Dunkirk-from-May-26-to-June-4-1940

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World War II Battles: Timeline | HISTORY

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Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the next six years, the conflict took more lives and destroyed more land and property around the globe than any previous war. See a timeline of the war’s battles.

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Battle of Kursk, July 5 to August 23, 1943

Military history's largest tank battle takes place on the Eastern Front involving an estimated 6,000 tanks, 4,000 aircraft and 2 million soldiers.

Germany attacks the Red Army near Kursk, Russia

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https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-ii-battles-timeline#Battle-of-Dunkirk-from-May-26-to-June-4-1940

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World War II Battles: Timeline | HISTORY

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Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the next six years, the conflict took more lives and destroyed more land and property around the globe than any previous war. See a timeline of the war’s battles.

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Monte Cassino, Cassino, Province of Frosinone, Italy

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Battle of Monte Cassino: January 17 to May 18, 1944

Advancing in Italy toward Rome, the Allies attack the Gustav Line, held by the Axis

However, in a bomber attack by the Allies, the abbey is destroyed, leading to public outcry and, post-bombing, as shelter for the Nazis.

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https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-ii-battles-timeline#Battle-of-Dunkirk-from-May-26-to-June-4-1940

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World War II Battles: Timeline | HISTORY

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Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the next six years, the conflict took more lives and destroyed more land and property around the globe than any previous war. See a timeline of the war’s battles.

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Nazis were created in 1920

The Nazi Party was the radical far-right movement and political party led by Adolf Hitler.

The Nazis ruled Germany as a one-party, totalitarian dictatorship from 1933 to 1945.

Went to war with Poland

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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-party-1

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The Nazi Party was the radical far-right movement and political party led by Adolf Hitler. Its formal name was the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP). Nazi ideology was racist, nationalist, and anti-democratic. It was violently antisemitic and anti-Marxist.

The Nazi Party was founded in 1920, but won little popular support until the crisis of the Great Depression. In 1933, the German president appointed Hitler Chancellor. At the time, non-Nazis dominated Germany's government. However, the Nazis used emergency decrees, violence, and intimidation to quickly seize control. The Nazis abolished all other political parties. They declared Germany a one-party state with Hitler as its supreme leader.

Origin of the Nazi Party

After Racist and antisemitic groups sprang up on the radical right. They blamed Jews for Germany's defeat in the war. These groups opposed the Weimar Republic and the Treaty of Versailles. They were against democracy, human rights, capitalism, socialism, and communism. They advocated to exclude from German life anyone who did not belong to the German World War I ended, Germany experienced great political turmoil. The Volk or race. Treaty of Versailles (1919) imposed harsh terms on Germany, which had lost the war. In addition, the country saw the overthrow of its monarchy. In its place was the new Weimar Republic, a democratic government.

In September 1919, Hitler attended a meeting of one of these groups in Munich, the German Workers' Party. This small political organization sought to convert German workers away from Marxist Socialism. At the meeting, Hitler's public speaking skills attracted notice. He was recruited to a leading role.

In 1920, Hitler changed the Party's name to the National Socialist German Workers' Party. "National Socialism" was a racist and antisemitic political theory. It had been developed in Hitler's native Austria as the antithesis of Marxist Socialism and Communism. Marxists, for example, advocated for the global solidarity of the world's workers. They called for the abolition of nation states. National Socialists, however, sought to unify members of the German Volk in complete obedience to the state. They called for a strong state to lead the "master race" in the "racial struggle" against "inferior races," especially the Jews.

Hitler formulated a 25-point program in 1920. The program would remain the Party's only platform. Among its points, it rejected the Versailles settlement. It also demanded to unify all people of German "blood." The program called for a Greater Germany ruled by a strong central state. The country was to acquire new lands and colonies. The program would deny citizenship and rights to all non-Germans, particularly Jews.

The Nazi Party grew steadily under Hitler's leadership. It attracted support from influential people in the military, big business, and society. The Party also absorbed other radical right-wing groups. In 1921, Hitler organized a paramilitary force called the Storm Troops (Sturmabteilung, SA). SA members were war veterans and members of the Free Corps ( Freikorps), paramilitary units that battled left-wing movements in postwar Germany.

The Beer Hall Putsch

On November 8-9, 1923, Hitler and his followers staged a failed attempt to seize control of the Bavarian state. They believed this would trigger a nationwide uprising against the Weimar Republic.

The uprising began in the Bürgerbräu Keller, a Munich beer hall. World War I hero General Erich Ludendorff, Hitler, and other Nazi leaders led the march. About 2,000 Nazis and sympathizers followed. City police clashed with the marchers, leading to an exchange of gunfire. Four police officers and 14 Nazis were killed. After the putsch, German authorities banned the Nazi Party. Several of its leaders were arrested and charged with high treason. Hitler was convicted and sentenced to 5 years in jail. After only eight months, he was released for "good behavior."

While in prison, Hitler began dictating his book, Mein Kampf. The book set out his world view and personal mission. Hitler believed he was destined to lead the German "master race" in the battle between races to control land and resources. He would achieve this by creating a racially pure state and conquering Lebensraum (living space) in the Soviet Union. Further, he would destroy the Germans' ultimate enemy, the Jews, and their most dangerous weapon: Judeo-Bolshevism. Mein Kampf was published after Hitler's release. It did not become a bestseller in Germany until after he became Chancellor.

The Rise of the Nazi Party

After the putsch failed, Hitler concluded that the way to destroy the Weimar Republic was through democratic means. In 1925, he persuaded Bavaria's leaders to lift the ban on the Nazi Party. Hitler promised that he would seek power only through elections. He then reestablished the Nazi Party under his complete control. What came to define the Party was not its 25-point program, but rather complete loyalty to its Führer or Leader, Hitler.

The Nazi Party prepared to stand in the elections. It organized branches in each German state. These branches worked to establish cadres in regions, cities, towns, and villages. The Nazi Party had a rigid top-down command structure. Officials were appointed from above rather than elected by members. In each region, a Gauleiter or District Leader served as head. This position was appointed by Hitler and answered directly to him.

The 1928 Reichstag Elections

The Nazi Party's membership had quadrupled by the 1928 elections for the Reichstag, Germany's parliament. However, it won only 2.6% of the votes and 12 seats.

Despite its name, the National Socialist German Workers' Party won little support from industrial workers. This did not concern Hitler, who was seeking to create a mass movement. He aimed to appeal to the many groups that disliked the Weimar Republic and feared socialism and communism.

Hitler emphasized propaganda to attract attention and interest. He used press and posters to create stirring slogans. He displayed eye-catching emblems and uniforms. The Party staged many meetings, parades, and rallies. In addition, it created auxiliary organizations to appeal to specific groups. For example, there were groups for youth, women, teachers, and doctors. The Party became particularly popular with German youth and university students.

The 1930 Reichstag Elections

What most contributed to the Nazi Party's success was Germany's economic collapse during the Great Depression, beginning in 1929. The crisis resulted in widespread unemployment and poverty. It also led to an increase in crime. Germans' resulting anger and fear left them vulnerable to arguments from the extreme right and left.

The 1930 elections saw a sharp rise in support for both the Nazis and the Communists. The Nazis had more support, though, winning 18.3% of the vote and 107 seats. With this outcome, they became the second largest party in the Reichstag. President Hindenburg and his conservative advisers did not want the largest party, the Socialists, to form a government and so tried to rule by presidental decree. They hoped in time to amend the constitution and establish authoritarian rule.

The 1932 Reichstag Elections

Increased political divide led to increased violence. The SA was especially violent. By 1932, it had amassed 400,000 members. That summer, there were deadly street battles and daily assassinations. More and more Germans came to agree with Hitler's argument that parliamentary democracy was destroying Germany by catering to special interests. Hitler asserted that the nation needed a strong leader to unite Germany and rule in the national interest. The Party did not emphasize antisemitism in its general campaign messaging.

In the July 1932 elections, the Nazis became the largest party in the Reichstag. The Party had won 37.4% of the vote and 230 seats. Hitler, however, refused to join a coalition government unless he was appointed Chancellor. Hindenburg opposed this demand.

The Reichstag elections had to be held again in November 1932. The Nazi Party remained the largest party, but had won two million fewer votes than in July. The Party dropped to 196 seats, with 33.1% of the vote. By this time, Germany's economy was on the mend and the Party's popularity was receding. The odds for the Weimar Republic's survival appeared to be improving.

Then, on January 30, 1933, Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor in a coalition government. It was not dominated by Nazis, but rather by members of the conservative German National People's Party and non-partisan professionals from the bureaucracy. Hindenburg took this step after his advisers assured him that the conservative members could control Hitler. They believed they could use Hitler's mass following to amend the constitution and create an authoritarian state.

Germany becomes a one-party dictatorship under Hitler

Once he became chancellor, Hitler moved quickly to bring the government under Party control. He persuaded Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag and announce new elections. The Nazis' campaign platform called to unify all good Germans in the fight to eradicate "Marxism," meaning both communism and socialism. The Nazi Party saturated Germany with its propaganda. Meanwhile, the government restricted the opposition press. In much of Germany, SA and SS (Schutzstaffel) members were deputized as auxiliary police. They used their powers to attack, arrest, and kill communists.

On February 27, 1933, there was a fire in the Reichstag building. The fire provided the excuse to declare a state of emergency. This allowed the government to abolish civil liberties and take over state governments. In the March 5 Reichstag elections, the Nazi Party won 44% of the vote. Together with its coalition partner, the Party barely won a majority of seats. Hitler used arrests, intimidation, and false promises to get the necessary votes to pass the Enabling Act on March 23. This "enabled" Hitler and his cabinet to dictate laws without approval from the Reichstag or President.

The Nazi Party did not only seize control of all levels of government. It also worked to control all aspects of German economic, social, and cultural life. This process was called Gleichschaltung, or "coordination." All other political parties were abolished by July 14, 1933. Germany was declared a one-party state under the Nazi Party. Government, legal, and educational institutions were purged of Jews and suspected political opponents. Workers, employers, writers, and artists came under control of Nazi organizations. Sports and leisure activities, too, fell under Nazi control. Only the military and the churches escaped "coordination."

Threat from Within

By 1934, the main threat to Hitler's continued control of the government came from within the Nazi Party, specifically the SA. SA men were eager to punish enemies and cash in on the Nazi takeover. Their violence and intimidation was met with increasing public disapproval. To reassure the nation, Hitler announced that the revolutionary phase of the "national uprising" had ended. Among the SA, however, there was talk of a second revolution. This was to be led by SA commander Ernst Röhm. By this time, the SA had 4.5 million members. It far outnumbered the Reichswehr, Germany's armed forces. Röhm made no secret of his desire to subordinate the military to the SA. In June 1934, Germany's generals made clear to Hitler that he had to tame the SA or face a military coup.

On June 30, 1934, Hitler executed a bloody purge of the SA. The purge became known as the "Night of the Long Knives." The estimated 150 to 200 victims included Röhm and other SA leaders, as well as conservative figures who had earned Nazi displeasure. Though subordinate to the SA, the SS carried out most of the murders. As reward, Hitler made the SS an independent Nazi organization. Its leader Heinrich Himmler answered directly to Hitler.

On August 2, 1934, President Hindenburg died. Every member of the German armed forces was then ordered to swear an oath of personal loyalty to Hitler. German military leaders had welcomed the slaughter of SA leadership. Without opposition, Hitler abolished the separate position of Reich President. He declared himself Führer and Reich Chancellor, the absolute ruler of the German people.

The Nazi Party in Power

All "Aryan" Germans were expected to participate in organizations run by the Nazi Party. However, the Party itself remained elite by limiting its membership. According to the "leadership principle," it retained its top-down command structure. There were leaders at every level: regional, county, municipal, precinct, and neighborhood. Leaders were appointed from above and oversaw popular conformity to Nazi standards. Before it came to power, the Party had also created a government-like apparatus. Departments were responsible for the same areas as government ministries. For instance, there were departments for foreign policy, justice, labor, and economics. This structure never replaced the German bureaucracy. However, it acted alongside it and in continual competition with it.

Hitler transformed one party office into a government agency when he made propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, head of the new Propaganda Ministry. Goebbels created a cult of personality that glorified Hitler as Germany's infallible savior. Nazi propaganda became inescapable in Germany. It dominated the press, film, radio, and public spaces. Portraits or statues of Hitler appeared everywhere. Every city and town renamed a street or public space to honor him. In public, ordinary Germans were expected to praise Hitler and give the so-called German greeting ("Heil Hitler!"). Propaganda permeated school curricula as well. Children, for example, learned odes praising Hitler's leadership in public schools. Leni Riefenstahl's film "Triumph of the Will" vividly portrays the image of Hitler as an almost divine leader. The film is based on one of the Party's massive rallies at Nuremberg.

The Nazi Party's control of every level of government allowed it to pursue its antisemitic agenda. The central government enacted sweeping antisemitic decrees. Even before that, though, Nazi officials persecuted Jews at the local level. Jews were excluded from professions, businesses, and public spaces. Propaganda portrayed Jews as poisonous vermin plotting to destroy the German Volk though capitalism and bolshevism. Nazi leaders claimed that "the Jews" started World War II. The war was portrayed as a struggle for German survival. The Nazi claim that the Jews intended to destroy the Germans became the excuse for the Germans to destroy the Jews.

Defeat of Nazi Germany

By the late 1930s, the vast majority of Germans supported Hitler and the Nazi state. The only organized attempt to oust Hitler and the Nazi Party occurred on July 20, 1944. By this time, Germany's defeat in World War II appeared inevitable. Following Hitler's suicide on April 30, 1945, Germany surrendered and was occupied by Allied forces.

The Allies banned the Nazi Party and declared it a criminal organization. They tried top Nazi leaders for crimes against humanity, among other crimes. To this day, the Nazi Party is banned in Germany.

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The National Socialist German Worker's Party, also known as the Nazi Party, was the far-right racist and antisemitic political party led by Adolf Hitler.

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USA training for planes for Pearl Harbor

Makeshift lake craft carriers to train on the ships

130 aircraft ended up in the lake

15,000 pilots

Source: Mr Vandersluis

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The Holocaust was Nazi Germany’s deliberate, organized, state-sponsored persecution and genocide.

1933–1945

The Nazis also persecuted other groups

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Anti-Japanese American Activity-

On December 7, 1941

just hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the FBI rounded-up 1,291 Japanese American community and religious leaders

arresting them without evidence and freezing their assets.

Source: https://www.history.com/articles/japanese-american-relocation#Anti-Japanese-American-Activity

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Japanese Internment Camps: WWII, Life & Conditions | HISTORY

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Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, be incarcerated.

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Anne Frank was born in the germany city frankfurt

she was well know for her diary during 1942

she had to hide with her family in a building in july 6 1942 she was caught and reported in a german camp

Source: https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/who-was-anne-frank/#:~:text=Jewish%20Anne%20Frank%20hid%20in,the%20Bergen%2DBelsen%20concentration%20camp.

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in th early 1942 a dental seurgeon from pennsylvania name Dr.lytle S.adams send a letter to the white house with a idea for a wepon that he belived would wreaked on japan

thousands of unsolicited cilvilian suggestions mailed to franklin .d. roosevelt it got a green light and was handed over to the army

the idea behind the bat bombs was the bats armed with timed incendiary devices would be released over a japan city.

history.com/articlas/weird-wepons-world-ii

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-american scientist wanted to refuges from fascist regimes in europe to exploit to the military purposes

-The first contact with the govermeant was made by G.B pegram of columbia university who arranged a conference between enrico fermi

-In february 1940 6,000 was made available to start the reserched under the supervison of committe headed L.J

britannica.com/event/manchattan-project

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adolf hitler secret expendtion to antractica 

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adolf hitler secret expendtion to antractica 

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in the summer 1936 Germany began building factory whaling ships to ply the Southern Ocean. At the time commercial whaling had been decimated in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. German whaling ships were operating far from home, so the idea of establishing an Antarctic base seemed like a good idea.

In August 1936 the German Foreign Office found some unclaimed territory in Antarctica between Norwegian and British zones and an expedition to explore and claim the region between 20 degrees east and 10 degrees west—part of an area known as Queen Maud Land—took shape.

After three months of repairs to turn the Schwabenland into an icebreaker, the captain sailed from Hamburg on December 17, 1938, with a crew of 82 scientists, officers and enlisted men, as well as two Dornier flying boats perched on catapults.

history.com/articles/hitler-nazi-secret-expedtition-antarctica-whale-oil

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the early years of World War II, German U-boats terrorized the North Atlantic, sinking British Navy vessels and civilian ships.

With steel and other resources in short supply, one British inventor pitched a creative solution. Why not build the floating air base out of ice

With the help of a molecular biologist, George Pyke invented “pykrete,” a bullet-proof material made from ice and wood pulp.

A 1,000-ton scale model was built and tested on a lake in Alberta, Canada. But by the time the design was finalized, long-range fuel tanks on patrol planes made the ice-cube carrier obsolete.

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history.com/articles/weird-wepons-world-war-ii

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During a time when segregation was the societal standard, racism was widely practiced and Black Americans were widely discriminated against, the United States was in the shadow of Pearl Harbor and on the brink of World War 2 At the same time, the U.S. was ranked the 16th largest military in the world and desperately needed pilots.

On March 7, 1942, the first class of cadets graduated from Tuskegee Army Air Field to become the nation's first African American military pilots, now known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

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pbs.org/articles/who-are-the-tuskgee-airmen

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the krummalauf was a Germany’s attempt to make a gun that could shoot around corners.

The Krummlauf was an attachment that added a curved section to the barrel of a standard-issue MP-44 rifle. There were two versions of the krummlauf

In American tests of captured German weapons, the Krummlauf performed poorly. Bullets would snappend in half

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history.com/articles/weird-weapons-world-war-ii

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Japanese internment camps were established during World War 2

during world war 2, the united states forcibly relocated and incarcrated about12,000 people of japanese descent in ten concentration campsoperated by the war relocation authority

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history.com/articles/japanese-american-relocation

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Industries Transitioned From Peacetime to Wartime Production

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Industries Transitioned From Peacetime to Wartime Production

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Its purpose was to convert the factories of peacetime industries into  manufacturing plants for weapons and military equipment for the fight.

Other items considered essential for war included petroleum products, rubber, paper and plastic.

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defese.gov/news/feture-stories/story/article/2128446/during-wwii-industries-transitioned-from-peacetime-to-wartime-production/

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Industries Transitioned From Peacetime to Wartime Production

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The women battalion was several women had served as nuses at the front or in petograd hospitals for wonded people. they all shared a passion to support russia war.

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defense.gov/news/feature-stories/story/article/2128446/during-wwii-industries-transitioned-from-peacetime-to-wartime-production/

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during world war 2 the soe againt decided it would be a good idea to procured 100 dead rats under a lab expirement

the would stuff dead rats into plastic explosives and ship them off to germany and france

the idea was for unsuspecting german solders to pick the dead rat and put them into the boiler and it would trigger and huge explosive

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history.com/articles/weird-wepons-world-war-ii

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Soviet forces linked up with their American counterparts attacking from the west in central Germany

German armed forces surrendered unconditionally in the west on May 7 and in the east on May 9, 1945.

Victory in Europe Day was proclaimed on May 8, 1945, amid celebrations in Washington, London, Moscow, and Paris.

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May 7, 1945. On this date, German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to Allied forces in the west.