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Japan invades Machuria.
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The date most frequently assotiated with the start of the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler was appointed German chancellor, setting in motion what would become the Nazi genocide against the Jews.
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Nazi Germany and Facist Italy sign a traty of cooperation, creating Rome-Berlin Axis.
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed agains the Soviet Union and the International Communist Movement.
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Japan invades China starting World War II in the Pacific.
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Facist Italy invades and annexes Albania.
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign an nonaggression agreement and a secret condicil diving Easter Europe into spheres of influence.
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Germany invades Polans, starting Worl War II in Europe.
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Poland's allies, France and Britain, declare war on Germany
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Soviet Union invades Poland from the East.
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Germany attacks Luxemburg.
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Italy enters to war.
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France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline
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The Axis powers, Germany, Italy and Japan, sign the Tripartite Pact. The Pact provided for mutual assistance should any of the signatories suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war. This formalizing of the alliance was aimed directly at "neutral" America, designed to force the United States to think twice before venturing in on the side of the Allies.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II.
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Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.
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The Battle of Midway. The United States navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the Central Pacific at Midway.
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United States troops halt the Japanes island-hopping advance toward Australia at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
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The Germans launch a massica tank offensice hear Kurks in the Soviet Union
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The United States and Britain troops land on Sicily.
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Britain and the United States troops successfully land on the Narmandy because of France, opening a "second front" against the Germans.
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The Soviets launch a massive offensive in Eastern Byelorussia, destroying the German Army Group Center and drivring westward to the Vistula River acroos from Warsaw in Central Poland.
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United States troops land in the Philippines.
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The Germans launch a final offensive in the West, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in an attepmt to re-conquer Belguim ans split the Allied forces along the German border.
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The Soviets aunch their final offensive encircling Berlin, known as the Battle of Berlin.
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Hitler commites suicide by a gunshot
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Magasaki.
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Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.
