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Germany invades Poland, starting World War II
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Britain and France declare war on Germany
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•Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
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Germany invades France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
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Italy declares war on France and Great Britain
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- France surrenders to Germany
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- The United States begins its first peacetime draft
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Germany invades the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa)
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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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- Yalta Conference begins
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- Allies begin bombing Dresden
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- Battle of Iwo Jima begins
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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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- 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
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japan surrenderd