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First Neutrality Act is passed
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Signing of the Rome-Berlin Axis
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Signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact
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German troops invade Czechoslovakia
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Hitler declares Austria as part of the Third Reich
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The Munich Conference is called
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Mussolini invades Albania
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German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact signed
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Germany attacks Poland
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The Soviet Union attacks Finland
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Germans invade Denmark and Norway
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Winston Churchill is named as Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Germans invade the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
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Dunkerque is evacuated
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Mussolini declares war on France and Great Britain
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Battle of Britain
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Japan forms an alliance with Germany and Italy
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Erwin Rommel takes control of Libya
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Germany attacks the Soviet Union
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Roosevelt and Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter
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Pearl Harbor is attacked
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US Congress declares war on Japan
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Wannsee Conference
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Bataan Death March
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Battle of Midway
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Battle of Stalingrad
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D-Day
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MacArthur lands in the Philippines
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V-E Day
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Potsdam Conference
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V-J Day