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World War II Begins
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Britain and France Declare War On Germany
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Soviet Union Takes Out League Of Nations
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Red Army Invades Poland In Accordance With Nazi- Soviet Pact
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Warsaw Falls To The Nazis
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Finland Signs Peace Treaty With Soviet Union
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Holland capitulates to Nazis
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Belgium capitulates to Nazis
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Nazis take Paris
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Battle of Britain begins
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Luftwaffe begins raids on British airfields and aircraft factories
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German Army Invades Poland
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Italian Army attacks Greece
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Germany Army Invades Denmark And Norway
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Norway capitulates to Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France
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Italian Army invades British Somaliland
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Military conscription introduced in United States
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British counter-attack begins against Italian Army in North Africa
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German "blitz" on British cities begins in earnest
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"Miracle at Dunkirk"
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Nazis take Paris
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Civil war erupts in Greece; Japanese retreat in Burma
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All German forces in Italy surrender
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Victory in Europe (VE) Day
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First U.S. atomic bomb tested at Los Alamos, New Mexico; Potsdam Conference begins
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First atomic bomb dropped Hiroshima
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Victory over Japan (VJ) Day
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9/2/1945 Japanese delegation signs instrument of surrender battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay
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nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal Begins
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Hermann Goring commits suicide-- 11 other war battles started AKA IT ENDED