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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II

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The Navajo Code Talkers (25th Anniversary Edition)

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Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington

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At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

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Nimitz

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China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II

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Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II

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The Greatest Generation

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Amazon.com ReviewVeteran reporter and NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw went to France to make a documentary marking the 40th anniversary of

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World War II Timeline ... 1940

World War Two Timeline
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* 1940 *
Date	Event	Web Site
April 9, 1940	Germany invades Denmark and Norway.	---
May 10, 1940	Video of German invasion of Holland (Netherlands) Germany invades Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Netherlands. Video of German invasion of France	---
May 14, 1940	Holland surrenders to the Axis.	---
May 17, 1940	Video footage of German soldiers invading France. French counter-attack German troops and fail to hold back invasion.	---
May 20, 1940	German troops reach Channel at Noyelles, France. Splits Allied forces in half.	---
May 25, 1940	Boulogne, France falls.	---
May 26, 1940	Calais falls. Operation Dynamo begins to evacuate Allied troops at Dunkirk.	---
May 28, 1940	Belgium surrenders.	---
June 5, 1940	Operation Dynamo ends at Dunkirk with 338,000 Allied troops evacuated!	---
June 22, 1940	France surrenders to Germany.	---
July 10, 1940	German planes bomb England. Battle of Britain begins.	---
September 13, 1940	North Africa Campaign begins when Italy invades Egypt.	---
September 27, 1940	Three-Power Pact Signed with Germany, Italy, and Japan.	---
October 28, 1940	Italy attacks Greece.	---
November 11, 1940	British raid on Taranto, Italy harbour. Three Italian battleships and two cruisers are crippled.	---
November 22, 1940	Greeks defeat Italians at Korista and start advance into Albania.	---

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World War II Timeline ... 1940

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April 9, 1940

May 10, 1940

May 14, 1940

May 17, 1940

May 20, 1940

May 25, 1940

May 26, 1940

May 28, 1940

June 5, 1940

June 22, 1940

July 10, 1940

September 13, 1940

September 27, 1940

October 28, 1940

November 11, 1940

November 22, 1940

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