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Germany Invades Poland
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Battle of Atlantic begins
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Soviets invade Poland
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Nazis invade Dnemark and Norway
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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United States and Britain declar war on Japan
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Hitler declars war on the U.S.
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First all-American air attack in Europe
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Battle of Stalingrad begins.
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First bombing raid by Americans on Germany
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Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran
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Germans counter-attack against the Anzio beachhead.
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D-Day landings on the northern coast of France
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V-E Day
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United Nations charter is signed in San Francisco
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Japan signs the surrender agreement
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United Nations is born