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Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals.
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WWII
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Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference.
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Nazis destroy synagogues and the shop windows of Jewish-owned stores throughout Germany and Austria
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Nazis and Soviets sign Pact.
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Nazis invade Poland
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United States proclaims its neutrality
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Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins
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Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.
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Soviets attack Finland.
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Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.
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Germans bomb Paris
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Germans enter Paris.
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Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich
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German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic
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Air battles and daylight raids over Britain.
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Italians invade Egypt
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United States military conscription bill passed
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Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia
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Allies invade Syria and Lebanon
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Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.
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Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev
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Attack on Pearl Harbour by Japan
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Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations
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Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA.
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First American forces arrive in Great Britain.
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Battle of Midway
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Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz
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First all-American air attack in Europe
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Massive German air raid on Stalingrad
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Battle of Stalingrad begins
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Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad
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Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls
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Large British air raid on Berlin
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D-Day
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Resistance uprising in Paris
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Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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American, British, and French troops move into Berlin
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The Enola Gay drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
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First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan
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second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan
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Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan
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Japanese agree to unconditional surrender
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United Nations is born
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Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.