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Nazis invade Poland.
The invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and ended on 6 October 1939 with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland. -
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Soviets invade Poland.
Soviet invasion of Poland was a Soviet military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939, during the early stages of World War II. Sixteen days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union did so from the east. The invasion ended on 6 October 1939. -
Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.
September 1, 1939 Nazi's invade Poland and September 29, 1939 Soviets invade Poland. Nazi and Soviets divide up Poland -
January 8, 1940 - Rationing begins in Britain.
When food stocks got down to dangerous levels before rationing was brought in, the government introduced food rationing only four months into WWII . -
Battle of Britain begins.
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. -
Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq
Rashid Ali led a coup against the Iraqi government and established a government with sympathies for the Axis cause. His request for German aid led to British military intervention in May 1941. -
Hitler declares war on the United States.
Hitler had made an oral agreement with his Axis partner Japan that Germany would join a war against the United States, he was uncertain as to how the war would be engaged. -
First all-American air attack in Europe.
First all-American air attack in Europe. Thousands of planes are eventually lost over Belgium during the course of the war. -
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran.
Held at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran, it was the first World War II conference amongst the Big Three (the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom). The meeting discussed relations with Turkey and Iran, operations in Yugoslavia and against Japan, and the post-war settlement. -
U.S. troops reach the Siegfried Line in western Germany.
They crossed that line and entered Germany. This crossing is near the Last Days of World War II. -
First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.
the city of Hiroshima was the target of the first atomic bomb used against civil population in history.
