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the war begins
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Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany
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British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy
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United States proclaims its neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland
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Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins
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Soviets invade Poland.
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Warsaw surrenders to Nazis; Reinhard Heydrich becomes the leader of new Reich Main Security Office (RSHA).
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Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
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Soviets attack Finland and lauge of nations reacts
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Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations
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Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets
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Nazis invade Denmark and Norway
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
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Belgium surrenders to the Nazis
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Germans bomb Paris; Dunkirk evacuation ends
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French Vichy government breaks off relations with Britain
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Hitler plans Operation Sea Lion (the invasion of Britain)
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Germans postpone Operation Sea Lion until Spring of 1941
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British begin a western desert offensive in North Africa against the Italians
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British forces advance into Italian Somaliland in East Africa
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President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act
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German attack on Tobruk is repulsed
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United States freezes German and Italian assets in America
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Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins
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Nazi SS-Einsatzgruppen begin mass murder
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Nazi SS-Einsatzgruppen begin mass murder in towns and to civillians
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there was a Mutual Assistance agreement created between British and Soviets
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Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations.
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Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations with enemy country
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The British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar by a U-boat
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The Japanese came to the us and bombed the military base in pearl harbor where many of our soldiers died
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Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations
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German air raids begin against cathedral cities in Britain
