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Germany violated the Treaty by occupying the rest of Czechoslovakia
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Two days after the Nazi-Soviet Pact, Polish-British Common Defence Pact was signed.
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Germand forcdes invaded Poland from the north, south and west.
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German 'Blitzkrieg' overwhelms Belgium, Holland and France.
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Operation Sea lion was Germany's strategy for attacking Britain. The German Luftwaffe would attack the Royal Air Force.
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Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia with a huge force of over four million troops.
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The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
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The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the US Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. US enters the war, opening the Pacific Theatre.
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The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway.
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Germany's entire Sixth Army is lost, and the war begins turning in favor of the Allies.
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The British had been fighting the Germans and Italians in North Africa since 1940.
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The Allies took Sicily from the Nazi Germany and Italy.
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Italy surrenders to the Allies, however Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy.
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D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans.
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U.S. forces, aided by a Free French division, liberate Paris from Nazi control.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the war.
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The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
Truman decided to use the newly developed atomic bomb to end the war quickly and prevent more U.S. casualties.
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World War II ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.