World War II Begins

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World War II Begins

• By Sarah Gurley

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German Resistance

• In 1939-
• British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy
• United States proclaims neutrality
• Canada declares war on Germany
• Warsaw surrenders to the Nazis

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War Full Steam Ahead

• Nazis and the Soviets divide up Poland
• Soviets attack Finland
• Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations
• Nazis invade Denmark and Norway

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War Full Steam Ahead

• 1940-Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and
  the Netherlands
• Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
  
• Holland and Belgium surrender to the Nazis
• Germans bomb Paris
• Norway surrenders

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Britain Fights Back

• Italy declares war on Britain and France
• Germans enter Paris
• German U-boats attack merchant ships in the
  Atlantic
• Battle of Britain begins
• Air battles and daylight raids over Britain

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Axis Powers Formed

• Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
• Italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa
• Italians invade Egypt
• Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy
  and Japan
• German troops enter Romania
• Italy invades Greece
• Hungary and Romania join the Axis Powers

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More Captured Countries

• Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia
• Yugoslavia and Greece surrender
• Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy
• Allies invade Syria and Lebanon
• United States freezes German and Italian assets
  in America
• British occupy Syria

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War Continues

• Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United
  States and suspends relations
• United States announces an oil embargo against
  aggressor states
• Nazi siege of Leningrad begins
• First experimental use of gas chambers at
  Auschwitz

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Now time for a movie

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