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Mussolini Joins Hitler
Benito Mussolini (fascist leader of Italy) joins forces with Adolf Hitler. -
Germany signs Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Germany signed the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact with the soviets. -
Germany Attacks Poland
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Britain and France Declare War on Germany
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Germany Attacks Denmark and Norway
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Roosevelt increases defense spending
President Roosevelt increases defense spending to the highest it has ever been before. -
Roosevelt aids Britain
Roosevelt makes a deal to give Great Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for various naval bases. -
President Rosevelt's State of Union address
Roosevelt stresses to congress the danger that aggressive fascists powers present to the U.S. -
Germany attacks the Soviet Union
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Pearl Harbor
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U.S. at war
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Japanese and U.S. aircraft carriers engage in battle
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German occupation of Southern France
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Italian gov't officially surrenders to the Allied powers
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Death of Adolf Hitler
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V-E Day
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First Atomic Bomb tested
US tests first atomic bomb in the desert of New Mexico. -
US drops bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
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US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan
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Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II
