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    British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat...
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    obstacles: For British anti-tank obstacles, see: British anti-invasion preparations of World War II#Lines and islands. The Korean Demilitarized Zone is...
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    British hardened field defences of World War II were small fortified structures constructed as a part of British anti-invasion preparations. They were...
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    of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the declaration of war by...
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    movement had a German invasion been successful British anti-invasion preparations of World War II Cross-Channel guns in the Second World War Junkers Ju 322 Mammut...
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    participated in World War II from 1939 to 1945 as a member of the Axis and encapsulates a significant period in the history of the Empire of Japan, marked...
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    months after the end of the war with their enemy Nazi Germany (World War II), which turned out to be 2 March 1946. On that date the British began to withdraw...
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    Africa during the Second World War by Allies of World War II, mainly from the British Empire, against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between...
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    Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on...
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    The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, "air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air...
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    world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but only a relative few nations remained neutral to the end. The Second World...
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    escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014. The invasion, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II, has caused hundreds of thousands...
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    fortifications were constructed in Britain in 1940 as part of the British anti-invasion preparations of World War II. About 6,500 of these structures still survive...
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    became World War II in 1941. Other proposed starting dates for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935. The British historian...
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    through a pair of buoys formed a wheeled axle. A surviving example in Farnham, Surrey British anti-invasion preparations of World War II British hardened field...
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    the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation...
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    on 1 September 1939, starting World War II. The Soviets invaded eastern Poland on 17 September. Following the Winter War with Finland, the Soviets were...
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    The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces...
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    After the outbreak of World War II, the Ethiopian government-in-exile cooperated with the British during the British Invasion of Italian East Africa...
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    2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion began on 20 March 2003 and lasted just over one month, including 26 days of major...
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    Britain re-created the World War I Ministry of Information for the duration of World War II to generate propaganda to influence the population towards...
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    timeline of events preceding World War II covers the events (mostly during the interwar period [1918–1939] after World War I) that affected or led to World War...
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    start of 1939, the British Army was, as it traditionally always had been, a small volunteer professional army. At the beginning of the Second World War on...
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    Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy following the German occupation in September 1943, consisted of Allied and Axis operations...
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    during World War II. The Italian invasion in October 1940, which is usually known as the Greco-Italian War, was followed by the German invasion in April...
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    by sea to Aden. The Italian invasion of British Somaliland was one of the few successful Italian campaigns of World War II accomplished without German...
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    GHQ Line (category British World War II defensive lines)
    place north of Chelmsford along the Chelmer Valley and towards Great Dunmow. British anti-invasion preparations of World War II British hardened field...
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    It is considered part of World War II, and often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia. It was the largest Asian war in the 20th century and...
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    This is a timeline of World War II events that took place in 1940, the first full year of the second global war of the 20th century. 1 January: 10,000...
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    officially adopted a neutral position during World War II until the five hour-long Japanese invasion of Thailand on 8 December 1941, which led to an armistice...
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