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The beginning date of the war.
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Germany invaded Poland
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On 17 September 1939, after signing a cease-fire with Japan, the Soviets invaded Poland from the east
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Germany attaked Denmarkand Norway
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British discontent over the Norwegain Campaign led to the replacement of the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, with Winston Churchill
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More V2 rockets fell on Belgium than on the British Kingdom; the v2 rockets was part of Hitlers "Wunderwaffe" program of supper-weapons
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The Battle of Britain was a fight between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe
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The battle of Britiain ended
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British scored a significant victory by sinking the German battleship Bismarck
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Paris fell to Germans and eight days later France surrendered and was soon divided into German and Italian occcupation zones, and an unoccupied rump state under the Vichy Regime, which, though officially neutral, was generally aligned with Germany
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Germany, supported by italy and romania, invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, with Gernany accusing the Soviets of plotting against them
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The Gernan military employed over 3 million pack animals, mostly animals, during their their invasion of the USSR
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The American counterpropsal required that Japan evacuate all of China without conditions and conclude non-aggression pacts with all Pacific powers.
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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
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Hitler issued the directive to prepare for an invasion of Soviet Union
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Italy surrendered
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Germany troops finally surrendered to the Socviet
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Germany attacked Soviet forces around the Kursk Bulge.
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The Soviets launched their own counter-offensives, thereby dispelling any hopes of the German Army for victory or even stalemate in the east
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The Soviets launched their own counter-offensives, thereby dispelling any hopes of the German Army for victory or even stalemate in the east
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The Western Allies invaded the Italian mainland, following an Italian armistice with the Allies
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Italy switched from axis to Allied
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D-day
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Approximately 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust by the end
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Alllies celebrated V-D day
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Japan offically surrendered aboard USS Missouri