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Hitler Comes To Power
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In January of 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germnay -
Germany invades Poland
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Germany invades Poland because Adolf Hitler seeked to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland -
Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Britain and France declare war on Germany in response to Germany invading Poland. -
France signs an armistice with Germany
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Following the decisive German victory in the Battle of France, this armistice established a German occupation zone in Northern and Western France that encompassed all English Channel and Atlantic Ocean port. -
Axis Powers are formed
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Italy, Germany, and Japan signed the Tripartite Act, which formed the alliance we know now as the Axis Powers -
The Battle of Pearl Harbor
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Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii destroyed 18 U.S. ships and 200 aircraft. -
The Battle of Midway
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Crucial naval battle of June 1942, in which U.S. Admiral Chester Nimitz blocked the Japanese attempt to conquer a strategic island near Hawaii -
D Day
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The beginning of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 -
Hitler Commits Suicide
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Knowing that the war was lost, Hitler commits suicide in a German bunker. -
The Atomic Bomb Is Dropped
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To try and end the war with the Japanese once and for all, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
