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September 1, 1939
World war 2 begins Hitler invades Poland and Poland falls -
April 9, 1940
Germany invades Norway and the war began in earnest -
May 10,1940
Germans invaded Belgium and the Netherlands which became soon called Blitzkrieg. -
June 10,1940
Italy enters World War II -
June 14,1940
German forces entered Paris, and France become divided into two zones -
June 22,1940
Hitler ordered the invasion of the soviet union codename operation Barbarossa -
July 1, 1940
Battle of Britain -
June 22, 1941
Germany invades soviet union -
November 1, 1941
Belzec concentration camp was opened -
December 7,1941
Japanese aircrafts attacked pearl harbor in Hawaii, more than 2,300 troops died -
December 8,1941
The first killing center was opened Jews and Roma were gassed in mobile gas vans -
April 9, 1942
Bataan death march and Japan -
May 18,1942
Nazis opened the Belzec, sobidor, and treblinka killing centers to systematically murder jews. -
June 4 1942
Battle of midway begins -
June 7, 1942
Battle of midway ends -
August 23, 1942
Battle of Stalingrad -
May 13, 1943
Axis forces in northern Africa surrender -
June 6,1944
General Dwight Eisenhower led the U.S. and allied troops in an invasion of Normandy, France -
July 23,1944
Soviet soldier entered Majdanek camp in Poland and later overran other camps -
January 27, 1945
Soviet Soldiers later entered Aushwitz and found several sick exhausted soldiers -
May 7, 1945
Germany surrenders -
May 8, 1945
Europe has victory -
August 6,1945
USA dropped on Hiroshima killing more than 78,000 people -
August 8, 1945
USA dropped a second bomb on Nagaski killing about another40,000 people -
September 2, 1945
World war 2 ends