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Germany invaded Poland
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WW2 Events
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Britain, Australia, New Zealand and France declare war on Germany
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Canada declares war on Germany
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
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Holland surrenders
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Belgium surrenders
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Italy declares war on Britain and France
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Norway surrenders
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First German air raids on London
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Germany invades Romania
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Instructions given by Hitler and Goring to prepare for the Final Solution
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First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz
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Japan makes a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii declaring war on Britain and the United States
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The United States, led by US president, Franklin D Roosevelt, declares war on the Axis powers
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First American forces arrive in Great Britain
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American naval victory at Battle of Midway, in June, marks turning point in Pacific War - 4 Japanese carriers sunk
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Mass murder of Jewish people at Auschwitz begins
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Battle of Stalingrad begins
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Operation Torch begins (U.S. invasion of North Africa)
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Surrender at Stalingrad marks Germany's first major defeat
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Italy surrenders to the Allies
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Allies enter Rome
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D-Day landings on the northern coast of France - Operation Neptune/Overlord
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US landings on Guam
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Operation Cobra - Allied breakout from Normandy begins
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Operation Dragoon begins (the Allied invasion of Southern France)
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Surrender of Axis forces in Greece
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German attack through Ardennes - Battle of the Bulge begins
December 26, 1944 - Patton relieves Bastogne -
Victory in Europe. Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin
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The United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima (20 kiloton bomb 'Little Boy' kills 80,000)
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WW2 ends