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Germany invades Poland
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Beginning of World War Two
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Congress passes cash-and-carry law to ease the sale fof arms to countries at war
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Winston Churchill becomes UK prime minister.
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Germany conquers the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
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Japan joins Axis alliance with Germany and Italy.
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Battle of Britain ends with Hitler's forces rebuffed.
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Hoosier Wendell Willkie unsuccessfully runs for president against incumbent Franklin Roosevelt.
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Roosevelt delivers the Four Freedoms speech about the future of the world.
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Congress establishes the lendlease program to deliver arms to Great Britain n credit.
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Germany begins its invasion of the Soviet Union.
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General Hideki Tojo becomes japanese prime minister.
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Japanese bomb the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet at Peral Harbor, Hawaii.
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Americans destroy four Japanese aircraft carriers in the Batle of Midway.
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Hitler and the Naazis formalize plans for exterminating Eurpope's Jews.
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Americans win the Battle of Guadalcanal.
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Allies invade Sicily.
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Allies launch invasion of France
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin.
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V-E DAy
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After the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese surrender.
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V-J Day