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Japan invades Manchuria
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Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President of the United States
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Hitler came into power
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hitler became Führer (Supreme Leader)
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Germany and soviet union sin the non agggression pact
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germany invades poland starts ww2
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Britan and France declare war on German
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Germany invades France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
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Evacuation begins of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France
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Italy declares war on France and Great Britain
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France surrenders to Germany
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Battle of Britain begins
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The United States begins its first peacetime draft
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill
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The British ship Hood is sunk by Germany's Bismarck
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The Bismarck is sunk
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Germany invades the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa)
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Atlantic Conference begins
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Siege of Leningrad begins
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The Japanese launch a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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Germany and Italy declare war on the United States; then the United States declares war on Germany and Italy
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The Wannsee Conference
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Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066, which allows the internment of Japanese Americans
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The Doolittle Raid on Japan
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The Battle of Midway begins
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First Battle of El Alamein begins
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Battle of Kursk begins
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Anne Frank and her family go into hiding
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Guadalcanal Campaign begins
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Battle of Stalingrad begins
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Second Battle of El Alamein begins
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The Allies invade North Africa (Operation Torch)
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Casablanca Conference begins
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Casablanca Conference begins
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The Germans surrender at Stalingrad, Soviet Union
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The Germans surrender at Stalingrad, Soviet Union
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins
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Battle of Kursk begins
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Mussolini resigns
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Italy surrenders
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Tehran Conference begins
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After 900 days, the Siege of Leningrad is finally over
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D-Day
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Battle of the Philippine Sea
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Assassination attempt against Hitler fails
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Anne Frank and her family are discovered and arrested
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The Allies liberate Paris
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Battle of Leyte Gulf begins
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Battle of the Bulge begins
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Yalta Conference begins
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Allies begin bombing Dresden
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Battle of Iwo Jima begins
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Battle of Okinawa
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Franklin D. Roosevelt dies
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Battle of Berlin begins
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Mussolini is hanged by Italian partisans
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Germany signs an unconditional surrender
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Potsdam Conference begins
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The United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
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The United States drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan