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German invasion of Poland
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Period: to
War in Europe
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Great Britian & France declare war on Germany
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Germany invades Denmark & Norway
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Germany invades Low Countries
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Italy declares war on Great Britian & France
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France signs armistice with Germay
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Germany invades Greece and Yugoslavia
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Germany invades USSR
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Pearl harbour
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Period: to
War in the Pacific
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U.S. declares war on Japan
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Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.
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Battle of Midway
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Allied troops land at Morocco and Algeria
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Allies land at Sicily
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Italians secretly surrender
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Allies invade Normandy
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Paris liberated
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Invasion of Iwo Jima begins
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Soviets invade Berlin
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Germany surrenders
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Okinawa captured
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders.
VJ day