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Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations
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Nazis and Soviets divide Poland
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France signs an armistice with the Germans
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler’s armies
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Spanish Civil War ended
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Nazis invade Poland
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US declares neutrality
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Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan
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President Roosevelt signs the Lend Lease Act
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Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis
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Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor
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First Japanese warship sunk by US
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Japanese invade Singapore
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Chester Nimitz appointed Commander and Chief of the US Pacific theater
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Bataan Death March begins
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Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz
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First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp
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U.S. Marines repulse first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal
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Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives permission to his troops to withdraw from Guadalcanal after five months of bloody fighting against U.S. Forces
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Allies take Tunisia
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Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland
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D-Day Landings
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Unconditional surrender of the Germans to the Allied forces
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United Nations is officially born