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<ahref='http://missschlegelsocialstudies.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/5/8/16585060/886321.jpg' >Newspaper Primary Source</a> Germany invades Poland. This marks the beginning of WWII
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France and Great Britain declare war on Germany. This marks the beginning of allies
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The French sign the Armistice after Hitler emerges victorious over France.
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Italy invaded Greece, starting the Greco-Italian War. Also, The Warsaw Ghetto Forms rise.
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Erwin Rommel attacks great Britain by surprise.
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Primary Source Operation Barbarossa. Code name for Germany’s attack to the Soviet Union.
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Roosevelt cuts the oil shipments to Japan because of their plans
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Primary Source Attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. This makes the US enter the war
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Hitler begins the Final Solution. It is a plan to kill all Jews.
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Primary Source 16 bombers bomb Tokyo and other Japanese cities under the command of Doolittle
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Battle of Midway. Battle between Japan and US by air in a little island in the middle of Japan and the US
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Battle of Guadalcanal. Also called Operation Watchtower. It was the first major attack by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.
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Primary SourceD-Day. Allies invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord. Largest seaborne invasion in history.
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Primary Source Battle of the Bulge. Last ditch attempt by Hitler to split the Allies in two in their drive to Germany and let them without supplies.
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MEeting of the heads of the government to decide what will happen to Europe post-WW
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Largest assault in the Pacific War of WW2. It lasted 82 days.
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Primary Source Germany surrenders. The allies win. This signifies the end of war for Europe.
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Primary Source Bombing of Hiroshima. US first atomic bomb dropped in Japan
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Primary Source Bombing of Nagasaki. US second atomic bomb dropped in Japan.
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Primary Source Japan surrenders after treats by the US of a 3rd bomb. The war officially ends.
