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Germany attacked Poland with no reason (unprovoked).
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The Prime Minister of Britain, Neville Chamberlain, declares war on Germany.
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An attempt to assassinate Hitler fails.
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The League of Nations expel the Soviet Union from their group.
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Germany invades Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
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War is declared on Britain and France by Italy.
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A three-month battle fought in the skies over Britain included destructive bombing raids on cities, one being London, but by the end of October the British hands Hitler his first defeat.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union without declaring war, unleashing its "Barbarossa" plan. The Germans encountered little opposition, even with many troops at the border. Hitler now had to fight a two-front war.
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Russia is attacked by Germany and the Axis Powers with a huge force of over four million troops.
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"Hitler issued the Night and Fog Decree. This decree replaced the unsuccessful Nazi policy of taking hostages to undermine Underground activities. Suspected Underground agents and others would now vanish without a trace into the night and fog".
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Auschwitz is the beginning of the mass murder of Jews by gassing.
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Germans enter Russia and start the Leningrad offensive on the 28th.
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Hermann Graebe, a German engineer and manager of a German construction firm in the Ukraine and his foreman came upon an Einsatz execution squad killing Jews from the small town of Dubno in the Ukraine,by accident. The dead, striped of all the clothing they had, lay on top of each other. Some people were still alive when after they got shot, others just died on impact.
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In Italy, Benito Mussolini is dismissed by King Victor Emmanuel and is arrested. Later, he attempts to escape to Switzerland with his mistress.
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Germany (Hitler) helps Mussolini escape the Allies, when Italy surrenders, and set up a government in Northern Italy.
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Italy declares war on Germany.
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After 900-day German siege, Leningrad relieved . More than one million civilians have starved to death in the city.
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France is invaded and the Germans are pushed back by the Allies.
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In the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans launch a large attack. In doing so they lose to the Allies sealing the fate of the German army.
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The Germans strike Britain with their last V-2 rocket. The V-2 campaign killed nearly 3,000 British people.
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As he knows Germany has lost the war Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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About a week after Adolf Hitler committed suicide, the Allies accept Germany’s surrender.
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Japan formally surrenders, having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on 15 August 1945, leading to the end of World War II throughout the rest of the world.
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