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September 30th, 1938:Chamberlain's policy of appeasement

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September 30th, 1938:Chamberlain's policy of appeasement

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Appeasement: giving into aggressive demand in order to maintain peace.

Chamberlain established the policy to try to avoid the impeding war, allowing Hitler to expand the territory of Germany unchecked. SOURCE: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-britain-hoped-to-avoid-war-with-germany-in-the-1930s#:~:text=Instituted%20in%20the%20hope%20of,as%20a%20policy%20of%20weakness.

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August 23rd, 1939: The Nonaggression pact

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August 23rd, 1939: The Nonaggression pact

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The nonaggression pact is an agreement in which each side promises not to attack the other Allowed for German aggression to continue without the threat of Soviet interference. Allowed for German aggression to continue without the threat of Soviet interference

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September 1st, 1939: Germany invades Poland

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September 1st, 1939: Germany invades Poland

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German forces used a new tactic to do an assault on Poland known as Blitzkrieg (lightning war, air attacks to damage defenses and cause panic.)

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Germany Invades Poland - 1939 | Today In History | 1 Sept 17

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Germans trapped hundreds of thousands of Allied troops, who were retreating to the coastal city of Dunkirk In historic rescued ships that saved over 300,000 soldiers and brought them all the way to Great Britain

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July 10th-October 31st 1940: Battle of Britain

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July 10th-October 31st 1940: Battle of Britain

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Our Stories: The Battle of Britain, Eugene Sharman (born Eugeniusz Szaposznikow)

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Did you know that in Battle of Britain some foreign fighter pilots were included in the Royal Air Force's squadrons.

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Did you know that in Battle of Britain some foreign fighter pilots were included in the Royal Air Force's squadrons.

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https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-battle-of-britain

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December 7th, 1941- Attack on Pearl Harbor

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December 7th, 1941- Attack on Pearl Harbor

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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander in Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet came up with the idea to finally take down the enemies. The U.S expected an attack but they didn't expect it to be as bad as it was.

https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/attack-pearl-harbor-1941

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February 19th, 1942- Japanese internment camps

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February 19th, 1942- Japanese internment camps

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government officials worried  more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and businesses and travel to internment camps. Due to the government being scared that Americans of German, Italian, and Japanese descent would help the enemy,

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July 1st-27th, 1942-Battle of El Alamein 

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July 1st-27th, 1942-Battle of El Alamein 

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The British won a big victory, using information gained from secret German codes, the battle of el Alamein resulted in axis power in north Africa being severely weakened.

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Sept. 8th, 1941-Jan. 27th, 1944- Siege of Leningrad

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Sept. 8th, 1941-Jan. 27th, 1944- Siege of Leningrad

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Hitler led a siege, or military blockade designed to force the city to surrender, this siege would last 900 days, perishing 1 million civilians.

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one of the most brutal battles of the war. Germans bombed, the city into rubble with air and artillery attacks German troops then moved into the ruins to wipe out the surviving Soviets, Soviet defenders fought furiously for each bombed-out building and cellar hole

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Following their surrender, the Japanese forced 70,000 prisoners march to a distant prison camp, Tropical heat, lack of food and water, and brutal violence from their captors killed 600 American and up to 10,000 Filipino prisoners

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a combined American and British forces landed in north America, in November 1942

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Japan had planned to capture the strategic island of Midway, home to a key American military base united States had broken the Japanese code As a result, they knew the date and location of the planned attack

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strategy targeted key islands and atolls to capture and equip with airstrips, bringing B-29 bombers within range of the enemy homeland, while hopping over strongly defended islands, cutting off supply lanes and leaving them to wither.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/visit/museum-campus-guide/campaigns-courage/road-tokyo

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allied forces invaded France, over 150,000 troops landed on the beaches of Normandy on the first day, forcing through the strong German defenses High casualties, but D-Day was a huge victory for the Allies

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During the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, the Japanese deploy kamikaze bombers against American warships for the first time. It would be proved costly–to both sides.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-kamikaze-attack-of-the-war-begins#:~:text=On%20October%2025%2C%201944%2C%20during,warships%20for%20the%20first%20time.&text=Lo%2C%20was%20struck%20by%20a,an%20hour%2C%20killing%20100%20Americans.

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Did you know  In World War II, the youngest serviceman in the United States military  was 12. He lied about his age when he enlisted in the US Navy.

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Did you know  In World War II, the youngest serviceman in the United States military  was 12. He lied about his age when he enlisted in the US Navy.

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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin conducted a meeting in the resort city of Yalta, located along the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference#:~:text=The%20Yalta%20Conference%20was%20a,coast%20of%20the%20Crimean%20Peninsula.

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 Feb. 19th, 1945 - March 26th, 1945-Battle of Iwo Jima 

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 Feb. 19th, 1945 - March 26th, 1945-Battle of Iwo Jima 

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The Battle of Iwo Jima was an  military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. 750 miles off the coast of Japan, the island of Iwo Jima had three airfields that could serve as a staging facility for a potential invasion of mainland Japan.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima

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March 26th - July 2nd, 1945-Battle of Okinawa

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March 26th - July 2nd, 1945-Battle of Okinawa

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he Navy’s Fifth Fleet and more than 180,000 U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps troops marched on the Pacific island of Okinawa for a final attack on Japan, - lasted nearly 3 months, 12,000 Americans died, the Japanese lost the battle, with 100,000 defenders were lost
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa

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 April-June 1945- Forming of the United Nations

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 April-June 1945- Forming of the United Nations

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representatives of 26 nations at war met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations , pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/un

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Europe claimed victory this day.

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an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; and later would have lasting effects that would kill tens of thousands of people.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

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Did you know The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese.

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Did you know The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese.

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the American’s dropped a second bomb on this Japanese city 40,000 more people died Tens of thousands more from both cities would later die from radiation poisoning

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1,26,000 people killed

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Japan surrenders, This day being V.J day or victory in Japan day and world war II was finally over