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1937-Japan and china Officially at war.
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1938-Germany took over austria and Czechoslovakia
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1938-made a secret order to secretly “kill” all children under 5 with signs of disabilities.
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1939- Germany invades Poland. World War II begins.
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1939- France and Great Britain declare war on Germany.
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1940- Germany invades and takes control of Denmark and Norway.
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1940- Formal alliance with Germany and Italy
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1940- Winston Churchill becomes leader of the British government.
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1940- Italy enters the war as a member of the Axis powers.
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1941- Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia with a huge force of over four million troops.
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1941- The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
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1942- The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway.
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1943- Italy surrenders to the Allies, however Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy.
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1944- D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans.
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1944- The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. They lose to the Allies sealing the fate of the German army.
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1945- US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima. After a fierce battle they capture the island.
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1945- US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. He is succeeded by President Harry Truman.
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1945-Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the war.
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1945 - Germany surrenders to the Allies.
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1945 - The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The city is devastated.
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1945 - Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
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1945 - Japan surrenders to US General Douglas MacArthur and the Allies.
