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Japan invades Manchuria
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Italy invades and conquers Ethiopia
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Japan invades China
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Fascist Italy invades and Albania
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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Italy invades southern France
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact
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Nazi Germany and the rest of the Axis power invade the Soviet Union
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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Axis forces in Tunisia surrender, ending the Axis's North African campaign
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British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France
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The start of Germanys last offensive in the west, The Battle of the Bulge
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Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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Japan formally surrenders