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Spanish Civil War End
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Hittler Renounces the Provicions of the Treaty of Versailles
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Britain signs a pact with Poland
Two days after the Nazi-Soviet Pact, Polish-British Common Defence Pact was signed. -
Germany Invades Poland
Germand forcdes invaded Poland from the north, south and west. -
The battle of France
German 'Blitzkrieg' overwhelms Belgium, Holland and France. -
Winston Churchill becomes leader of the British government.
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Battle of Britain.
Operation Sea lion was Germany's strategy for attacking Britain. The German Luftwaffe would attack the Royal Air Force. -
Germany Invades USSR Opening Eastern Front.
Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia with a huge force of over four million troops. -
The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor.
The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies. -
The Imperial Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the US Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. US enters the war, opening the Pacific Theatre. -
Battle of Midway
The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway. -
Battle of Stalingrad.
Germany's entire Sixth Army is lost, and the war begins turning in favor of the Allies. -
Allies Drive Germans out of North Africa.
The British had been fighting the Germans and Italians in North Africa since 1940. -
Invasion of Sicily.
The Allies took Sicily from the Nazi Germany and Italy. -
Italy surrenders to the Allies.
Italy surrenders to the Allies, however Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy. -
D-Day
D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans. -
Paris Liberated
U.S. forces, aided by a Free French division, liberate Paris from Nazi control. -
Adolf Hitler suicide.
Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the war. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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.
On August 9, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. -
End of World War II
World War II ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.
