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1939 15 March Hitler seizes Prague. This is followed by a<br />

Franco-British guarantee to Poland on 31 March.<br />

23 August Nazi-Soviet Pact signed.<br />

1 September <strong>Germany</strong> invades Poland.<br />

3 September Britain and France declare war on <strong>Germany</strong>.<br />

1940 22 June France signs an armistice with <strong>Germany</strong>.<br />

1941 22 June <strong>Germany</strong> invades the Soviet Union.<br />

1942 20 January Wansee Conference in Berlin on the ‘Final Solution’.<br />

1943 30 January German Sixth Army capitulates at Stalingrad.<br />

1944 6 June Allied invasion of Normandy.<br />

20 July Stauffenberg Bomb Plot to assassinate Hitler.<br />

1945 4-11 February ‘Big Three’ conference at Yalta.<br />

30 April Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin.<br />

8 May Unconditional surrender of <strong>Germany</strong> to the Allies.<br />

<strong>History</strong>: <strong>Germany</strong>: Versailles to the Outbreak of World War II - 1918-1939 (AH) 9

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