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Germany invaded Poland; two days later Britain and France declare war on Germany.
As war approached children under the age of 11 and mother's with children  under five were evacuated from cities.

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A team of scholars  arrived at Bletchley Park. Their mission was to crack the Nazis' Enigma code.

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Germany invaded Denmark and Norway British efforts to help defend them failed and both countries were conquered.
In Britain dissatisfaction with Neville Chamberlain's  leadership of the war effort led to Winston Churchill being made prime minister on 10 may 1940 , as a leader of a coalition government.

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Japanese launched a surprise attack  on the US  naval base at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii. Of  the 8  battleships  of the US Pacific fleet , 2 were destroyed , 3  severely damaged and  3 damaged. Of the 394 airfcraft on the island , 164 were destroyed  and 159 damage . In addition 2395service personnel  and civilians  were killed, and 1178 wounded.
Immediately after what they saw  as their military triumph, the Japanese began their conquest of the Philippines from the USa , of Malaya , Burma and Hong Kong from Britain, and the East Indies  from Holland, in addition  to their conquests in China and French Indochina.
Four days after Pearl Harbour attacks , Germany and Italy declared war on the USA

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The Luftwaffe bombed British cities. British policy was to respond by bombing German cities.
On February 1942 the air ministry detailed change from precision bombing , hitting specific targets such as factories and railways.
Bomber' Harris took over bomber command in 1942  and is credited with its succes  in destroying The industries that supplied the German air forces.

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The Germans  launched  a new blitzkrieg offensive on the eastern front. The Soviets who were expecting it, made massive preparations.
With massive  German losses in men(500,000 killed, wounded , or missing)  and equipment. It was the first time a blitzkrieg  had been  stopped.

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American, British , Canadian and Free French forces landed on five beaches of the Normandy coastline. Code-named Operation Overlord .
D-Day mark the start of a second  front. From that day onwards the German armies had to fight a war on two fronts. The allied armies  were eventually able to  liberate France , Belgium , and the Neverlands and advance into Germany  itself

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8 may : Germany  surrendered,Japan now fighting alone
21 June: Okinawa capturer, US airbase  just 325 miles from Japan
26 July: presindent Truman issued Japan with an ultimatum, surrender or else. Prime minister Suzuki ignored this.
6 August :Hiroshima atomic bomb
9 August: USSR declared war on Japan and invaded Manchuria Nagasaki atomic bomb
14 August: Japan surrendered.