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Germany invades Poland and WW2 begins.
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World War Two
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France and Great Britian declare war on Germany.
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Germany invades and takes control of Denmark and Norway.
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Germany uses lightning war to takeover much of West Europe.
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Winston Churchill becomes leader of British government.
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Italy enters war as a member of the Axis powers
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Germany launches air attacks at the Battle of Britian.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign Tripartite pact.
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Axis powers attack Russia with force over 4 million troops.
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and U.S enter the war on the Allies side.
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US Navy defeats Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway
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Allies invade and take the island of Sicily, Italy
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Italy surrenders to the Allies but Mussolini escapes to create a government in Northern Italy
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D-Day and the invasion of Normandy. The Allied forces invade France and push Germany back.
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Paris, France is liberated from German control
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Germans desperately launch the Battle of the Bulge, which they lose to the Allies.
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U.S. Marines invade Iwo Jima, Japan and capture the island.
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General Patton leads the US Army to cross the Rhine River.
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FDR dies and is succeeded by Harry S. Truman
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Hitler commits suicide to avoid the shame that he knows will come after Germany loses
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Germany surrenders to the Allied powers.
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U.S. drops an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
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U.S. drops atomic bomb nicknamed Fat Man on Nagaski, Japan.
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Japan surrenders to the Allies and World War Two is over!