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Germany invades Poland and begins the Second World War
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Keeping their word on protecting Polish borders, four countries enter the war against Germany
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The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east.
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Warsaw surrenders on September 27. The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.
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The bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe began
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The bombing of Great Britain has ended
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Five Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman raise the flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, using a piece of Japanese pipe as a mast, February 23, 1945. Three of the flag raisers were later killed as the fighting raged on. By March 16, when Iwo Jima was declared secured, 6,821 Americans and 21,000 Japanese (the entire force) had died. The flag raising photo and subsequent statue came to symbolize being a Marine.
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Victory In Europe. The Allied Powers beat Germany.
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B-17 Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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B-17 Bockscar bombs the Japanese city of Nagasaki with the second atomic bomb built by the US.
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Victory In Japan Day. Allied Powers defeat Japan.
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