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Date
Hitler became chancellor of Germany

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1933

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Date
Britain declared war of Germany

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September 3rd 1939

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Evacuation of Dunkirk

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May-june 1940

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Date
Battle of Britain

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Summer 1940

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Date
Blitz German bombing of London

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September 1940-1941

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Date
German invades USSR in June; Japan attack pearl harbour

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1941

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Date
D day: allied invasion of France

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June 1944

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Date
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ending war

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Aug 1945

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Adolf hitler

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Leader of Germany 1933-45

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Winston Churchill

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British prime minister from 1940-45

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Hugh dowding

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Leader of RAF

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Harry Truman

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President of USA who ordered atomic bombs to be dropped

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Neville chaimberlain

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British PM associated with the appeasement of hitler

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Hermann Goering

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Leader of a German air force (luftwaffe )

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Dwight Eisenhower

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US general in charge of D day

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Appeasement

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The policy of giving in to hitler in order to keep peace

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Stalingrad

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The USSR defeated Germans here: a key turning point

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Dunkirk

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-major Evacuation of British and allied troops
-338,000 managed to escape

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Battle of Britain

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-German air force had to take over skies and defeat RAF
-British invention of radar-> Germans were the intercepted early
-nazi’s inability to take over skies meant that the plans were invasion delayed

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Dday

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  • allied invasion caught Germans by surprise
    -huge casualties
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Blitz

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  • German bombing of Britain
    -main cities
    -43,000 people died
    -hitler’s aim was to kill as many people possible so Britain became too poor to fight
    -auxiliary fire service, air raid precautions
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki

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-Japan had kamikaze pilots (didn’t surrender)
-only way land could be taken back was to kill all Japanese
-single bomb was dropped, killed 29,000
-second bomb was dropped and a week later Japanese surrendered

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