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Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started
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Italy declared war on Germany and Austria
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Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo
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Germany declared war on Russia
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Britain declared war on Germany
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The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians
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USA declared war on Germany
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Armistice between Germany and Russia signed
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Germany’s navy mutinied
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Turkey made peace
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Germany signed an armistice with the Allies – the official date of the end of World War On
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Japan invades Manchuria
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Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia
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Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement
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Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific
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Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany
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Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.
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The Germans launch a massive tank offensive near Kursk in the Soviet Union. The Soviets blunt the attack within a week and begin an offensive initiative of their own
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Hitler commits suicide
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Hitler commits suicide
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Hitler commits suicide
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Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II
