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Annexation of Czechoslovakia
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Pact of Steel Signed
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Invasions (Germany and Russia) of Poland
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Declaration of War on Germany
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Partition of Poland
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Invasion of the Low Countries and France begins; Blitzkrieg used against the West
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Beginning of the Evacuation of Dunkirk
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France Surrenders to Germany
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Battle of Britain begins
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Tripartite (Axis) Pact Signed
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Lend-Lease Act Signed
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Operation Barbarossa begins
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Final Solution begins
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Germans abandon attack on Moscow
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Pearl Harbor bombed
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United States declares war on Germany and Japan
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German and Italian surrender in North Africa
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Auschwitz Opened
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Battle of Stalingrad begins
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Allies land in Sicily
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Italy surrenders
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Italy declares war on Germany
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D-Day
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Assassination attempt on Hilter fails
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Battle of the Bulge begins
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Mussolini hanged
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Hitler commits suicide
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Potsdam Conference
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Hiroshima bombed
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Nagasaki bombed
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V-J Day
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UN established
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Nuremburg Trials begin