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World War II begins, Germany invades Poland Killing 16,336 civilians
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Germany takes control of Denmark and southern Norway
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Germany invaded the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France
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Concentration camp Auschwitz opens
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France surrenders
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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Japanese attack Pearl harbor
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United States declares war on Japan and Germany
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Extermination of Jews begins in Belzec
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Extermination of Jews by gas begins in Sobibor killing center
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Deportation of Jews from Germany, Greece and Norway to killing centers
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German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad
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SS takes control of previous POW camp Bergen-Belsen
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Jews rebel in Warsaw ghetto After Germans try to liquidate 70,000 citizens
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Jews start to fight back in Bedzin, Bialystok, Czestochowa, Lvov, and Tarnow ghettos
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Large liquidation of Jewish ghettos in Minsk, Vilna, and Riga
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Jews revolt in Sobibor extermination camp
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Germans occupy Hungary
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Nazis begin deporting Hungarian Jews, 380,000 in the next couple months
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D-day, Allied invasion of Normandy
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Soviet Union forces repels Nazi forces
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Group of Nazi soldiers attempt to assassinate Hitler
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Russian set Majdanek killing center free
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Jewish revolt at concentration camp Auschwitz
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Evacuation of Auschwitz
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Liberation of concentration camps captured by Allied powers
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Hitler commits suicide
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V-E Day, Germany surrenders
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Bombing of Hiroshima
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Bombing of Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders, end of World War II
