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Germany invades Poland
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France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
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Germany invades and takes control of Denmark and Norway
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Winston Churchill becomes the leader of the British government
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Italy enters the war
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Germany launches an air attack on Great Britain
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact
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Germany and Axis Powers attack Russia
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The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor
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The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy
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The Allies invade and take the island of Sicily
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Italy surrenders to the Allies
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D-day and the Normandy invasion
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Paris is liberated from Germany
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Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge
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US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima
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President Franklin Roosevelt dies
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Germany surrenders to the Allies
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U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
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Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan
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Japan surrenders to US and the Allies