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Japan invades Manchuria.
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Japan signed an anti communism pact with Germany.
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War between China and Japan.
300,000 Chinese massacred. -
F.D.R. gives Quarantine Speech.
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Kristallnacht
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Hitler invaded Poland
And France and Britain declare war on Germany. -
France falls to Germany
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German blitzkreig overwhelms Belgium, Holland, and France.
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Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
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F.D.R. runs for an unprecedented third term.
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Hitler postpones his invasion plans because the British won the Battle of Britain.
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Japan forms military alliance with Germany and Italy.
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Allies take Tobruk in North Africa and resist German attacks.
Siege of Tobruk lasted 241 days and it ended on November 27, 1941. -
Hitler begins Operation Barbarossa, which was the invasion of Russia.
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General Hideki Tojo took control of Japan.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, bringing the U.S. into war.
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Japanese take Singapore.
25,000 prisoners taken. -
Auschwitz starts murdering Jews.
Although Auschwitz opened on May 20, 1940. -
America wins naval battle at Battle of Midway, making a turning point in the Pacific War.
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Germany suffers at Stalingrad and El Alamein.
Battle of Stalingrad started on Augest 23, 1942 and ended on February 2, 1943. -
Germany's first major defeat at Stalingrad by surrendering.
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Victory in North Africa launches invasion of Italy.
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Italy surrenders to the Germans.
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British and Indian forces fight Japanese in Burma.
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Allies land at Anzio and bomb monastery at Monte Cassino.
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Doomsday.
The Allied invasion of France starts. Paris is liberated. -
Battle of the Buldge.
Ended on January 25, 1945. -
Auschwitz liberated by Soviet Troops.
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Iwo Jima taken.
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Okinawa taken.
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Roosevelt dies.
Truman takes Roosevelt's place. Attlee replaces Churchill. -
Hitler commits suicide and Germany surrenders.
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VE Day.
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U.S. drops Hiroshima on Japan.
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U.S. drops Nagasaki on japan, and Japan surrenders.
