World War II

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Jul 7, 1937

Japan invades China, initiating war in Pacific

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Sep 29, 1938

Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, giving Germany the Sudentenland in the Czechoslovak Republic

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Aug 23, 1939

Germany and Soviet Union sign a nonagression pact and agree to split Poland

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Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland, initiating WWII

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Sep 3, 1939

Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

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Jun 10, 1940

Italy enters the war and invades southern France

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Oct 28, 1940

Itlay invades Greece from Albania

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Feb 25, 1941

Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact

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Dec 7, 1941

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

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Dec 12, 1941

Axis powers declare war on USA

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Jun 25, 1942

US defeats Japan at the Battle at Midway; a turning point in the war

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Jul 10, 1943

US and Great Britain take over the island of Sicily

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Jun 6, 1944

British and US troops sucessfully launch an attack on Normandy , creating a second front to fight the Germans

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Apr 30, 1945

Hitler commits suicide

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May 8, 1945

Germany surrenders to the Western Allies and Soviets

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Aug 6, 1945

US drpos atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing thousands of civilians

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Aug 9, 1945

US drops second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan

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Sep 2, 1945

Japan formally surrenders, ending WWII