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9/1/1939
Germany Invades Poland- Beginning of World War II -
9/3/1939
France and Britain declared war on Germany -
1939
Soviet troops invaded Poland -
1940
As the war expanded, the Nazi Party formed alliances with Japan and Italy in the Tripartite Pact of 1940. [Nazi Party] -
1940
Germany at the same time invaded Norway and Denmark -
1940
German forces swept through Belgium and the Netherlands. -
1940
Hitler's troops crossed the Meuse river and struck forces at Sedan -
1940
Italy declared war on France and Britain -
1940
German forces entered Paris -
1941
Early 1941 - Prime Minister Winston Churchill began receiving crucial aid from the U.S. under the Lend-Lease Act, passed by Congress -
1941
April 1941 - Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria had joined the Axis, and German troops overran Yugoslavia and Greece -
1941
[Concentration camps] - The Germans started getting rid of the people that seemed less useful like the sick, weak, and too young. -
1941
Hitler ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union, codenamed Operation Barbarossa. -
1941
360 Japanese aircraft attacked the major U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. -
1941
Congress declared war on Japan -
1942
June 1942 - the U.S. Pacific Fleet won the Battle of Midway -
1942
November 1942 - Soviet launch counteroffensive which ended the battle of Stalingrad. -
1942
the Wannsee Conference near Berlin, the Nazi Party decided on the last phase of what it called the “Final Solution” of the “Jewish problem” and spelled out plans for the systematic murder of all European Jews -
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1942-1943
Allies also had success against Japanese forces. (August - February) -
1943
Mid-1943 - Allied naval forces began an aggressive counterattack against Japan -
1943
[Concentration Camps] - ended the death of 7,000 jews. -
1944
celebrated as “D-Day” - the Allies began a massive invasion of Europe, landing 156,000 British, Canadian and American soldiers on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
1945
Early August 1945 - the atomic bomb was unleashed on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
1945
August - the Japanese government issued a statement declaring they would accept the terms of the Potsdam Declaration -
1945
Hitler committed suicide
