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Where did WW2 start in Europe

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Poland

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WWII started with the German invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939. Britain and France responded two days later by declaring war on Germany.

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Poland

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World War II was the second world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The two powers during the war were the Axis, and the Allied. The Axis was led by Germany, Italy, and Japan, and the Allied was led by Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. The war began in September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, initiating World War II in Europe. During the time, Germany was led by Adolf Hitler, who was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. Hitler had attacked Poland because he wanted Germans to live there. Hitler considered Polish people inferior. In the last three months of 1939, the Nazis murdered 65,000 Jewish and non-Jewish Poles. To justify the invasion of Poland, Hitler used the Gleiwitz. Hitler ruled until April 30, 1945 when he took his own life in his Berlin Bunker, along with his wife, Eva, as Soviet troops advanced to Berlin to hunt him. Hitler and his wife swalloed a cyanide capsule and shot himself in the head, resulting the end of the Third Reich and Germany's unconditional surrender on May 7, 1945 to the Allies in Reims, France, signed by German General Alfred Jodl. However, the war was not over until September 2, 1945, when Japan was forced to surrender due to the deployment of the atomic bomb by the United States, which was used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese representatives signed the official Instrument of Surrender, ending World War II.

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