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57 Cards in this Set
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German Anschluss with Austria
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1938
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30 September 1938
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Munich Agreement
Those present: Hitler, Daladier, Chamberlain, Mussolini Agreement that Hitler could have Sudetenland Czechs were not represented |
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March 1939
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Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
Despite assurances given by Hitler during Munich agreement |
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March/April 1939
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British rearmament, and assurance of Poland
Britain rearmed, a radar system was installed along the east coast, conscription was introduced Britain reassured threatened Poland |
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August 1939
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Russia and Germany sign non-aggression pact
includes secret clauses for the division of Poland |
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1 September 1939
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Hitler invades Poland
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3 September 1939
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Britain and France declare war on Germany
Chamberlain broadcasts the announcement to UK civilians |
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September 1939-May 1940
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"Phoney War"
Called this because the British saw no Military action in the first months of the war |
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April/May 1940
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Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
-to safeguard supply routes of Swedish Ore -to establish a Norwegian base from which to break the British Naval Blockade |
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10 May 1940
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"Blitzkrieg"
Hitler launches lightning war on Holland and Belgium Rotterdam is bombed almost to extinction Both countries are occupied |
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13 May 1940
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Neville Chamberlain Resigns
After pressure from Labour party members for a more active prosecution of the war is succeed by Winston Churchill Ernest Bevin, ne laboyr minister ups coal production and workers Lord Beaverbrook, Aircraft minister increases aircraft production |
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26 May 1940
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Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
BritishCommander in Chief, General Gort forced to retreat to coast at Dunkirk. Troops waited under fire to be taken off beaches. All ship owners called to rescue men - 338,000 men rescued among them 140000 who would form Free French army under Charles DeGaulle |
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11 June 1940
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Italy enters war on the side of the Axis powers
Motive was rich pickings from the spoils of war |
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22 June 1940
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France signs armistice with Germany
Marshall Petain signs armistice, taking the war-torn France out of the war and under German Occupation |
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10 July - 31 October, 1940
Battle of Britain Phase 1 |
July:
Hitler sends Luftwaffe Bombers to attack British ports, in an aim to asses speed and quality of response of RAF |
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10 July - 31 October, 1940
Battle of Britain Phase 2 |
August:
German attacks of British shipping continued, but bombing raids focused on RAF |
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10 July - 31 October, 1940
Battle of Britain Ohase 3 |
The Blitz September 7th -
London heavily bombed. Hitler's aim was to lower morale of British people. |
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10 July - 31 October, 1940
Battle of Britain Phase 4 |
Night Bombing
Failure of daylight raids so Hitler began bombing London and other industrial cities by night. RAF defended the skies, and by October 31, raids had stopped. |
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22 September 1940
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Tripartite Pact
Signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan |
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December, 1940
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British rout Italians in North Africa,
This was led by General Wavell |
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Early 1941
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Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia, Greece, and Crete attacked German Marshall Erwin oMMEL LED AXIS POWERS BACK TO nORTH Africa |
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22 June 1941
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Hitler attacks Russia (Operation Barbarossa)
Hitler sends 3500 tanks, 3 million men into Russia Russians shocked because of treaty with Germany, sing mutual assistance treaty with Britain Eastern front Battle launched - 20 million casualties USA supply arms to USSR |
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7 December 1941
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Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks US fleet at pearl Harbor in Hawaii |
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8 December 1941
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Us and Britain declare war on Japan
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February, 1942
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Japanese take Singapore from the British, taking 60000 prisoners
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June 1942
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Battle of Midway
USA Defeats Japanese Navy at midway, US able to push Japanese back |
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August 1942
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Allies in North Africa
General Alexander given directive by Churchill to destroy German-Italian army in Libya and Egypt, once it had been built up, Alexander gives campaign to General Montgomery |
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23 October 1942
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Battle of El Alamein
Montgomery attacked G-I Army in North Africa with massive bombardment and armoured attack. He then chases them 1500 miles across desert |
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November 1942
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Battle of Stalingrad
Russians win first victory against germans at Stalingrad |
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November 1942
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Allies push into North Africa
Under command of Gen. Eisenhower Land in NW Africa and assume control of French morocco, Algeria |
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May 12 1943
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Axis surrender North Africa
British and American forces defeat axis forces |
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July 1943
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Allies invade Sicily
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August 1943
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Allies take Sicily
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3 September, 1943
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Italy surrenders
Mussolini through out of office, new Italian government surrenders to Allies, agrees to join them Germans take control of Italian Army, free Mussolini, set up puppet government in Northern Italy, blocking Ally advance through Italy |
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Nov 1943
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Allies meet at Tehran
Stalin, Roosevelt (FDR), Churchill Discussed squeeze on Germany, post-war settlements Churchill mistrust Stalin FDR goes along with Stalin's wishes for second front in France, no further diversions east Churchill overruled |
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January 1944
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Leningrad Relieved
Siege of Leningrad listed by Soviet Army |
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June 1944
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Rome liberated from Germany by Allies
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6 June 1944
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D-DAY
Allies, under Eisenhower's command are sent to attack Germany's forces in Normandy, German troops fed false information rush to cALAIS, unable to stop allies from forming Bridgehead. |
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July 1944
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Japanese evicted from Burma
British forces drive japanese out of barman under direction of Gen.Slim, and with help from Chindits led by Orde Wingate |
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25 August 1944
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Paris Liberated from Germans
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8 September, 1944
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First V2 flying bombs kill three people in London
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December 1944
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Battle of the Bulge
Final German defensive through Ardennes region of Belgium, where the Allies beat the germans back |
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March 1945
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Allies cross the Rhine, while Soviet forces approach Berlin from the east
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April 1945
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Death of president Roosevelt, succeeded by Harry S. Truman
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April 1945
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Russian reach Berlin shortly before US Forces
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28 April 1945
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Mussolini captured and executed by Italian Partisans
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30 April 1945
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
-In bombproof shelter -w/ misstress/wife Eva Braun |
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2 May 1945
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German forces in Italy surrender to the allies
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4 May 1945
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German forces surrender in NW Germany, Holland, Denmark, to Montgomery of Luneburg heath
Hitler's Successor, Admiral Donitz tries to reach a surrender where he can keep fighting the Russians, but is refused. |
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7 May 1945
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Donita offers unconditional Surrender to the allies.
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8 May 1945
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V.E. Day
Victory day celebrated in Europe |
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5 July 1945
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Churchill loses election to Clement Atlee's Labour party
Labour wins 393 to conservatives 213 Landslide victory was due to promise of social reform and welfare People did not want to return to pre-war conditions |
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6 August 1945
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Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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8 August 1945
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Russia declares war on Japan, and invades Manchuria
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9 August 1945
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Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki
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14 August 1945
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Japanese surrender unconditionally to the allies
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2 September 1945
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MacArthur accepts Japan's surrender, formally ending World War II
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