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• Hitler youth- children in the Nazi party
• all trade unions are abolished, and members of trade unions are enemies of the state
• enemies of the state can be executed
• jews are put in to ghettos 
• homosexuals are rounded up
• intellectuals from uni's with degrees who disagree with Nazi's are rounded up

• George VI crowned in England

• Stalin in Russia
• Stalin has probs already killed about 5 million of his people before the war starts

• Sept 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. THIS BEGINS WORLD WAR II. 
• By september 27, Germany had conquered Poland. 

• France, May, 1940
• Germans came in from Norway
• The Blitzkrieg consumed Europe
• France fell
• The last of the British allies in France leave from Dunkirk under heavy fire from the Germany artillery. That is the end for France. It is divided into Vichy France and South France
• Winston Churchill

• LONDON- SEPTEMBER 1940
• Bavaria, Germany, 1941
• Operation Barbarossa
• German advance was rapid, capturing lots of the Soviet Union
• Over 3 million Soviet soldiers were captured