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- 16th of September
April 27 - Auschwitz established
May 10 - Germany invades France, Belgium and the Netherlands
May 26 - Evacuation begins of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France
June 10 - Italy declares war on France and Great Britain -
- 11th of December
March 11 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill
May 24 - The British ship Hood is sunk by Germany's Bismarck
May 27 - The Bismarck is sunk
June 22 - Germany invades the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa)
August 9 - Atlantic Conference begins
September 8 - Siege of Leningrad begins
December 7 - The Japanese launch a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
December 11 - Germany and Italy declare war on the United States; then the United States declares war on Germany and It -
- 8th of November
January 20 - The Wannsee Conference
February 19 - Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066, which allows the internment of Japanese Americans
April 18 - The Doolittle Raid on Japan
June 3 - The Battle of Midway begins
July 1 - First Battle of El Alamein begins
July 6 - Anne Frank and her family go into hiding
August 2 - Guadalcanal Campaign begins
August 21 - Battle of Stalingrad begins
October 23 - Second Battle of El Alamein begins
November 8 - The Allies invade North Africa (Operation Torch) -
- 28th of November
January 14 - Casablanca Conference begins
February 2 - The Germans surrender at Stalingrad, Soviet Union
April 19 - The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins
July 5 - Battle of Kursk begins
July 25 - Mussolini resigns
September 3 - Italy surrenders
November 28 - Tehran Conference begins -
- 16th of December
January 27 - After 900 days, the Siege of Leningrad is finally over
June 6 - D-Day
June 19 - Battle of the Philippine Sea
July 20 - Assassination attempt against Hitler fails
August 4 - Anne Frank and her family are discovered and arrested
August 25 - The Allies liberate Paris
October 23 - Battle of Leyte Gulf begins
December 16 - Battle of the Bulge begins -
- 9th of August
February 4 - Yalta Conference begins
February 13 - Allies begin bombing Dresden
February 19 - Battle of Iwo Jima begins
April 1 - Battle of Okinawa
April 12 - Franklin D. Roosevelt dies
April 16 - Battle of Berlin begins
April 28 - Mussolini is hanged by Italian partisans
April 30 - Adolf Hitler commits suicide
May 7 - Germany signs an unconditional surrender
July 17 - Potsdam Conference begins
August 6 - The United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
August 9 - The United Sta