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Germany invades Poland
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France and Great Britain declares war on Germany
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Germany invades and takes over denmark and norway
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Germany uses Blitzkrieg to take over France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
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Winston Churchill becomes leader of the British government
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Italy enters the war as part of the axis powers
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Germany launches and air attack on Great Britain
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance.
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Germany attacks Russia
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Japan attacks pearl harbor
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U.S.A. enters the war as part of the Allies
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The U.S. Navy defeats Japan's navy in the battle of midway
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The allies invade and take over the island of Sicily
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Italy surrenders to the allies but Mussolini escapes with the help of Germany
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D-Day invasion
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Paris is liberated from German control
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Germans launch a large scale attack called the battle of the bulge and loose to the allies sealing Germany's fate
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US marines invade and capture the island of iwo jima
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The US army crosses the Rhine River
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US president Franklin Roosevelt dies
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Germany Surrenders to the allies
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The US drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders
