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Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.
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Nazis take Czechoslovakia.
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Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy.
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Hitler invades Poland . Britain and France declare war on Germany two days later.
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Period: to
2 guerra mundial
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Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
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Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins.
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Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
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Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations
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Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister
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Germans bomb Paris; Dunkirk evacuation ends.
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Marshal Pétain becomes French Prime Minister.
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Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich; Soviets begin occupation of the Baltic States.
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Battle of Britain begins
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Battle of Britain begins
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Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president
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Massive German air raid on London.
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German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa.
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President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.
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Rommel attacks Tobruk
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Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg.
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United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.
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Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.
Operation Barbarossa meant a hard blow to the unprepared Soviet forces, who suffered heavy casualties and lost large tracts of territory in a short time. However, the arrival of the Russian winter ended German plans end the invasion in 1941. During the winter, the Red Army counterattacked and quashed hopes of Hitler to win the battle of Moscow. The operation ended on December 5, 1941, with the withdrawal of the German army. -
Stalin calls for a scorched earth policy.
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Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard a warship off the coast of Newfoundland during the Atlantic Conference. The conference took place from August 9-12, 1941, and resulted in the Atlantic Charter, a joint proclamation by the United States and Britain declaring that they were fighting the Axis powers to "ensure life, liberty, independence and religious freedom and to preserve the rights of man and justice." -
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military offensive carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States at Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) naval base on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941. -
United States and Britain declare war on Japan.
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Hitler declares war on the United States.
On September 11, 1941, the President of the United States publicly declared that he had ordered the American Navy and Air Force to shoot on sight at any German war vessel. In his speech of October 27, 1941, he once more expressly affirmed that this order was in force. Acting under this order, vessels of the American Navy, since early September 1941, have systematically attacked German naval forces. -
Hitler takes complete control of the German Army.
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SS Leader Heydrich holds the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
On January 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second in command of the SS organization, convened a conference in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. At the meeting, 15 top Nazi bureaucrats and members of the SS met to coordinate the "Final Solution" in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the 11 million Jews of Europe and the Soviet Union. -
Sinking of the British ship Hood by the Bismarck
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Rommel begins an offensive against the Gazala Line
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Britain recognizes General Charles de Gaulle as the Free French leader.
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Nazis and Soviets sign a pacts
