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Hitler was born to Alois and Klara Hitler, and later became the Chanceler of Germany.
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The holocaust is the German word for death by fire.
The Nazis began exterminating the Jews. -
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WW2 Began with the invasion of Poland by Germany.
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Penicillin is widely produced to fight disease like gonorrhea and syphilis. -
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With the death of President Rosevelt Truman came into office. -
Five Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman, raise the American flag on Mount Suribachi, in Iwo Jima. Three of the five Marines later died in the fighting. -
Following Hitlers suicide the German unconditional surrender ended the war in Europe. -
The Uranium-based atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and later a plutonium-based atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Forcing Japan into surrender and end WW2 -
With the Japanese Emperor signing the surrender WW2 the deadliest military conflict of all time officially came to an end with an estimated 70-85 million lives lost. -
After the nukes Japanese Emperor Shōwa issued an official surrender and that ended the war. -
The Geneva Conventions are four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war. The Geneva Conventions extensively define the basic rights of wartime prisoners (civilians and military personnel), established protections for the wounded and sick, and provided protections for the civilians in and around a warzone. the Geneva Convention also defines the rights and protections afforded to non-combatants. -
Edsell Howard was born.
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The original AR-15 was designed, this gun would set the stage for American military rifles for the foreseeable future.
