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Germany invaded Polland
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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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Norway surrenders
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Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy
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First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz
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Peral Harbor
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The Manhattan Project
FDR gave orders to develop the atomic bomb. -
Mass murder of Jewish people at Auschwitz begins
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Battle of Stalingrad begins
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Surrender at Stalingrad
The long battle of Stalingrad ended in January 1943 with the surrender of German troops. Out of the 91,000 prisoners taken by the soviets, only about 5,000 survived and returned to Germany -
German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa
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D-Day
Allies hit Germany in force. More than 11,000 planes attempted to destroy German communication, and transportation networks and soften Nazi defenses. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are destroyed
at 8:15 AM U.S. pilots droped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
