what happened in 10 may 1940?
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Germany attacked in the west on May 10, 1940. Initially, British and French commanders had believed that German forces would attack through central Belgium as they had in World War I, and rushed forces to the Franco-Belgian border to meet the German attack.
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Germany defeated and occupied Poland (attacked in September 1939), Denmark (April 1940), Norway (April 1940), Belgium (May 1940), the Netherlands (May 1940), Luxembourg (May 1940), France (May 1940), Yugoslavia (April 1941), and Greece (April 1941).
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May 10 is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 235 days remain until the end of the year.
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In World War II the chief Allied powers were Great Britain, France (except during the German occupation, 1940–44), the Soviet Union (after its entry in June 1941), the United States (after its entry on December 8, 1941), and China.
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Germany invades Poland. On this day in 1939, German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air. World War II had begun.
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5 April – four British soldiers were killed in a bomb blast near the Iraqi city of Basra. 12 April – the anchor handling tug supply vessel Bourbon Dolphin capsized in the North Sea. Three people died and four were missing.
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The Operation Operation Torch was the Anglo-American invasion of French Morocco and Algeria during the North African Campaign of World War II. It began on November 8 and concluded on November 16, 1942.
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Germany invaded eight countries in 1939 and 1940: Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and the The Channel Island (UK).
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The war in Europe concluded with an invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, culminating in the capture of Berlin by Soviet troops, the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945.
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German Invasion of Western Europe, May 1940. German troops overran Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France in six weeks starting in May 1940. France signed an armistice in late June 1940, leaving Great Britain as the only country fighting Nazi Germany.
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The war erupted on September 1, 1939, and it did not end until September 2, 1945. With over thirty countries involved in the war, World War II absolutely reached the point of being the largest, deadliest, and most destructive nationwide war to date.
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At the time Prime Minister Winston Churchill called it “a miracle of deliverance”. On 12th May 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion of France. ... As a result the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), as well as French, Canadian and Belgian troops, found themselves fighting against overwhelming odds.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany. On September 3, 1939, in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.
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Invasion and Partition of Poland On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. To justify the action, Nazi propagandists falsely claimed that Poland had been planning, with its allies Great Britain and France, to encircle and dismember Germany and that Poles were persecuting ethnic Germans.
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V-E Day was observed on May 8, 1945, in Great Britain, Western Europe, the United States and Australia, and on May 9 in the Soviet Union and New Zealand. V-E Day commemorates the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied forces in 1945, ending World War II in Europe.
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['Hitler begins Operation Barbarossa - the invasion of Russia.', "The Blitz continues against Britain's major cities.", 'Allies take Tobruk in North Africa, and resist German attacks.', 'Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, and the US enters the war.']
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On September 3, 1939, in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.