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 Nonaggression pact between USSR and Germany  Both agree to split Poland USSR gets Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia  Hitler invades Poland on 9/1/1939 Tanks, bombing raids  France and Britain declare war on Germany on 9/3/1939 Germany annexes w. Poland  Blitzkrieg (“lightning war”) Fast moving airplanes and tanks, massive infantry forces

 Stalin sends troops to occupy e. Poland on 9/17/1939 Annexes Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia  Finland fiercely defends themselves Soldiers on skis Soviets end up winning, force Finns to surrender  Hitler launches attack on Denmark and Norway on 4/9/1940

 Germans sneak into France  Britain saves French soldiers by picking them up with boats on coast  Germany takes France on 6/22/1940  Charles de Gaulle sets up government in London, determined to reconquer France

 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill refuses to surrender  Hitler plans to destroy Royal Air Force (RAF) and then land soldiers on shores of England Germany’s Luftwaffe (air force) begins bombing London (1940)  RAF fights back against Luftwaffe with new technology Radar Enigma (code-making machine)  Luftwaffe begins bombing Britain at night Citizens take shelter in subways, air-raid shelters, basements  Hitler gives up on 5/10/41 to focus on Mediterranean and E. Europe

 North Africa Mussolini attacks British-controlled Egypt  Suez Canal is key to reaching oil fields In Feb. 1941, British capture 130,000 Italians  Hitler sends tank force (Afrika Korps under Erwin Rommel) to help Britain retreats, then attacks, driving Rommel back  Rommel ends up pushing back and drives British out (“Desert Fox”) Rommel eventually gets crushed by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

 The Balkans Hitler decides to invade the Soviets, but first needs to take over Balkan countries  Persuades Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary to join Axis Powers  Greece and Yugoslavia refuse, side with Britain Hitler invades Greece and Yugoslavia and captures them within 14 days  Flies the swastika from the acropolis

 The Soviet Union “Operation Barbarossa” Surprises the Soviets on June 22, 1941 Germans push 500 miles to interior Scorched-Earth strategy as Soviets flee Germany destroys storehouses of food  People starve, eat cows, horses, cats, dogs, crows, rats Soviets resist German advances under Georgi Zhukov  Germans lose 500,000 soldiers between Oct. 2, 1941 and Mar. 1943

 Roosevelt asks Congress to allow the Allies to buy American arms in 1939 Lend-Lease Act (March 1941) allows lending and leasing arms to any nation vital to the US US Navy escorts British ships carrying US arms in 1941  Atlantic Charter Allows free trade among nations and right of people to choose their own government  German U-Boat fires on US destroyer, which fires back Begins a naval war between Germany and the US

 8/23/42: Luftwaffe begins bombing Stalingrad  By early November, Germany controls 90% of city  Soviet troops capture and surround Stalingrad, trapping Germans 2/2/43: 90,000 German troops surrender  All that was left of 330,000 troops

 King Victor Emmanuel III has Mussolini arrested (7/10/43)  Italy surrenders in war on 9/3/43  Germany tries to help Italy, but retreats  Mussolini is trying to get into Germany He is shot and killed, his body hung in Milan

 Eisenhower plans to lead a force on 6/6/44 to coast of Normandy (NW France)  British, American, French, Canadian troops fight onto 60-mile stretch of beach Germans dig in with machine guns, rocket launchers, cannons 2700 Americans killed  Allies hold the beachhead led by Gnl. George Patton

 Battle of the Bulge is lost by Germany  Allies roll tanks across Rhine River in March of 1945  Allies approach Berlin from west, Soviets from the east  Soviets begin attacking berlin in April with bombing raids  Hitler commits suicide in a bunker  Third Reich surrenders on May 7, 1945 (VE Day)