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Nazi Germany invades Poland
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evacuation of Dunkirk overwhelms Holland, Belgium and France
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Battle of Britain and the ‘Blitz’ of British cities
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German ‘Blitzkrieg’
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Operation Barbarossa begins November, 1941 – the Allies take Tobruk
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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour
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the fall of Singapore
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The Battle of Midway
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first news of Nazi atrocities against Jewish people reaches the Allies
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German forces surrender at Stalingrad
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D-Day Landings
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Soviet liberation of Auschwitz
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the United States drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki