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Pact singed
The Nazis and sovites sing a pact that will cause peace for the countrys -
Nazis invade Poland
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War On Germany
Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany. -
Canada declares war on Germany
Also the Battle of the Atlantic begins -
Soviets invade Poland
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Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.
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Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
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Soviets attack Finland.
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Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations.
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Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
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Nazis invade
France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; get invaed by the nazis -
Germans bomb Paris;
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Norway and Italy
Norway surrenders to the Nazis and also Italy declares war on Britain and France. -
France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany
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Battle of Britain begins.
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Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
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Italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa.
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Italians invade Egypt.
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Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.
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Italy invades Greece.
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Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.
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Massive German air raid on London.
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British forces arrive in Greece.
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Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.
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Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg
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Nazi SS-Einsatzgruppen begin mass murder.
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Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
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Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor;
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United States and Britain declare war on Japan.
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Hitler declares war on the United States.
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Hitler takes complete control of the German Army.
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Battle of Stalingrad begins
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Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships.
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Soviet troops advance into Poland.
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
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Battle of Atlantic
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Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran.
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D-Day
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'Battle of the Hedgerows' in Normandy
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Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails.
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Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland.
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Massive German surrender at Aachen, Germany.
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Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta.
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Allies discover stolen Nazi art and wealth hidden in German salt mines.
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German forces in the Ruhr surrender.
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Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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Alll German forces surrender
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SS-Reichsführer Himmler commits suicide
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Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government.
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First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.
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Soviets declares war on Japan
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Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan
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Japanese agree to surrender.
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Japanese sign the surrender agreement; V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.
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United Nations is born.
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Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.