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Germany invades Poland; World War II begins
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Germany invades Norway and Denmark
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Attacks against Netherlands, Belgium, and France
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Italy enters World War II
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Germany Launches air attack on Great Britain
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Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance
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Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia
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Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The US enters World War II
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US Navy defeats the Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway
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Italy surrenders to the Allies; however Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in N. Italy
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D-Day and the Normandy invasion
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Paris is liberated from German control
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US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima
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US President Roosevelt dies. He is succeeded by President Truman.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders to the Allies
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US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshim, Japan
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Atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasoki, Japan
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Japan surrenders to US General MacArthur and the Allies