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Poland and France agree to provide each other with military assistance in the event that either is attacked
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Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop non aggression pact
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Great Britain and Poland form an alliance
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German forces invade Poland
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France and Great Britain declare war on Germany, WWII begins
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World War II
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One day after Poland surrenders to Germany, The Soviet Union and Germany split Poland between them
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Finland falls to the Soviet Army
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Denmark falls to German forces
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Holland surrenders to Germany
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Belgium falls to German forces
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The ten-day evacuation of over 338,000 Allied troops from France
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Italy joins WWII by declaring war on Great Britain and France
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Norway falls to German forces
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France signs an armistace with Germany, nearly all of France is German-occupied and conquered
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The Battle of Britain
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Italian forces invade Egypt
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact and become the Axis Powers
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Yugoslavia falls to German forces
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British naval forces sink one of Germany's largest battleships, the Bismarck
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Germany breaks its non-agression pact with the Soviet Union and invades its land
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The Axis lay siege on the Soviet city of Leningrad
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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America and Great Britain declare war on Japan
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Germany declares war on America
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The six-day Bataan Death March of over 75,000 American and Filipino troops directed by the Japanese begins
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Japanese naval forces retreat at the Battle of Midway
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The Battle of Stalingrad
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The German Afrika Korps are defeated after the twelve day battle at El Alemein
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American forces capture the Japanese-controlled Island of Guadalcanal
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The ghetto in Wasaw, Poland is attacked by German troops
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The German Afrika Korps surrenders to the Allies
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American and British troops land on Italian Sicily
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Benito Mussolini is overthrown
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Allied forces take Sicily
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Allied bombing campaign of Germany begins
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D-Day -Operation Overlord- French liberation begins
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American forces recapture Guam, an American island, from Japan
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Allied forces liberate Paris, France
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The last German offensive at the Battle of Bastogne ends after 10 days
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After almost a month of vicious fighting, Americans take the Island of Iwo Jima
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American forces invade Okinawa, a main Japanese Island
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The Battle of Okinawa
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Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva commit suicide
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The Red Army takes the German capital of Berlin
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Germany surrenders to the Allies
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V-E Day, the war in Europe officially ends
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American forces take Okinawa
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The American bomber "The Enola Gay" drops "Little Boy", an atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb eventuallu kills more than 138, 661 civilians.
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An American bomber drops a second atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Nagasaki, Japan
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Japan surrenders- Victory in Japan (V-J) Day
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Japan formally surrenders, WWII ends
