Germany invades Norway and Denmark
April 9, 1940
Wehrmacht troops swept into Denmark in a few hours and into Norway in weeks, securing iron ore supplies from Sweden and Atlantic ports. A British expedition to help was outfought and withdrawn. The failure brought down Neville Chamberlain in London and put Winston Churchill into 10 Downing Street on the day the Germans invaded France.
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