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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. His Nazi Party takes power.
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Germany invades Poland. World War ll begins.
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France and Great Britain declare war on Germany.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
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Germany uses guick strikes called blizkrieg, meaning lightning war, to take over the Netherlands and Belgium.
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Italy enters the war as a memeber of the Axis powers.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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The Japanese attack the United States Navy un Pearl Harbor. The next day the United States enter the war on the side of the Allies.
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The United States Navy defeats the Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway.
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Italy surrenders to the Allies.
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Allied forces invade France at Normandy and push back the Germans, known as D-day.
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The Germans fight back in the battle of the Bulge but lose to the Allies
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Allied trops capture Iwo Jima.
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President Franklen Roosevelt dies.He is succeeded by Harry Truman.
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Germany surrednders to the Allies, ending the war in Europe.
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The United states drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima,Japan.
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Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki,Japan
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Japan surrenders to the Allies , ending the war.
