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Seizure of Manchuria
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Japan withdraws from League of Nations
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Hitler pulls Germany out of the Leagur of Nations
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Hitler secretly begins building up Germany’s army
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Hitler orders troops to enter the Rhineland
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Hitler marches into Austria.
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Hitler invades Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia
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Germany invades Poland
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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U.S. declares war on Japan and enters WWII
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Germany defeated in the air war known as the Battle of Britain
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Germany attacks USSR and lays siege to Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
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Germany and Axis Powers declare war on the U.S.
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U.S. forces move across the Pacific towards the Japanese homeland
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Battle of Midway
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Tehran Conference
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D-Day Western Europe is liberated from Nazi Germany’s control.
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US-British forces enter Germany; Soviet forces take Berlin
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Hitler commits suicide
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German military commanders surrendered unconditionally
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United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima
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United States drops atomic bombs on Nagasaki
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Japan negotiates surrender to the Allies, ending World War II