Click on Find Out More to see an image of Adolf Hitler and Benito Moussolini
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Mr. Chamberlain (Prime Minister UK) continued: "I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received and consequently this country is at war with Germany."
Click Find Out More to see a picture of German soldiers invading Norway. Norway surrenders on June 9.
Click on Find Out More to see a picture. Hitler is the man in the middle. Behind the three men is the Eiffel Tower.
On 18 June 1940, Churchill gave a rousing speech to the British people, announcing: "... the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin." Four days later, France surrendered to Germany and Hitler turned his attention to Britain.
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On this day in 1941, as World War II raged across the Atlantic, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act. This gave the president authority to sell, lease or lend military hardware to any country he designated vital to national security. In a January message to Congress, Roosevelt wrote: “We cannot, and we will not, tell them that they must surrender, merely because of present inability to pay for the weapons which we know they must have.”
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Click on Find Out More to see a picture of the Attack on Pearl Harbor. The ship in the picture is the USS California.
Leaning heavily on the arm of his son James, a Marine captain, FDR walked haltingly into the House of Representatives at noon to request a declaration of war from the House and address the nation via radio. “Yesterday,” the president proclaimed, “December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.”
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Click on Find Out More to watch real footage from the Battle of Midway.
Click on Find Out More to watch a video from the Battle of Stalingrad
Click on Find Out More to see a picture of the U.S Coast Guard wading to the a section of Omaha Beach in France.
Click on Find Out More to see The Instrument of Germany's surrender signed in Reims, France.
Click on Find Out More to see a picture of the mushroom cloud above Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped.
Click on Find Out More to see a picture of the mushroom cloud above Nagasaki after the bomb was dropped.
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