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Nazi invasion of Poland
Hundreds of thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish refugees fled the advancing German army into eastern Poland, hoping that the Polish army would halt the German advance in the west. -
Graf Spee Sunk
A German battlecruiser who was on a mission to attack British merchant vessels. -
Hitler's Speech at BerlinSport Palace
Hitler threatens the Jews of the world with annihilation; he also blames the failure of the offensive in Soviet Union on the weather. -
Pearl Harbor
7:55 a.m on a Sunday morning, war came to America. -
D-Day
On D-Day, June 6, 1944 , General Dwight Eisenhower led U.S. and Allied troops in an invasion of Normandy, France. The armies fought their way through France and Belgium and into Germany while Russian troops fought from the east. -
Franklin D.Roosevelt Death
He was leading the U.S through an economic crisis and the world war. -
Germany Surrenders
Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union at 2:41 A. M. -
The first atomic bombs dropped on Japan
Atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945 and the second on August 9, 1945.
