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On September 3, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany.

In seven days the German army reaches Warsaw. On September 17, Poland is also attacked by the Soviet Union under the German-Soviet pact. Warsaw capitulates ten days later, Hitler and Stalin divide Poland.

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After having invaded Denmark and Norway, Hitler launched his great offensive against Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and France in May 1940.

On the 17th, the day after the capitulation of Paris, Marshal Pétain called for the fighting to cease. On the 18th, General de Gaulle urges resistance from London.

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On August 13, 1940, Germany began the Battle of Britain, marked by the bombing of London and Coventry until May 1941.

Faced with English resistance, Hitler abandons his invasion plan and launches the blockade of the British Isles.

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At war with China after invading southern Indonesia, Japan makes a surprise attack on the United States military base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, destroying most of its Pacific fleet.

The United States enters the conflict that takes on its global dimension.

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In Russia, where most of his troops fight, Hitler suffers his most painful defeat. On February 2, 1943, the Germans, surrounded in Stalingrad by the Red Army since November, surrender at the end of a battle that cost the Axis half a million men.

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On September 2, 1945, less than a month after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, Japan surrendered, ending World War II.