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Germany re-militarizes the Rhineland, Allies turn to appeasment.
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JOseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler sign a nonaggression pact.
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Poland falls to Germann Blitzkrieg forces.
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France and Britain declare war on Germany.
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Stalin sends forces to the north of poland. Latvia and Estonia fall as well.
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Stalin's troops force finland to accept terms of surender.
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French leaders surrender to German troops.
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German forces bombed London and other large cities in Britain.
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As German forces push further into the Soviet Union, Stalin's forces use the "scorched earth" policy.
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German forces begin 3-year long battle of leningrad.
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Japan bombs U.S naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. U.S declares war on Japan
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U.S defeats japan at Midway. This was the turning point in the war in the Pacific.
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U.S soldiers land ashore at Guadalcanal.
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American forces defeated the Japanese navy.
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Allies land in Algeria and Morrocco, starting operation torch
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U.S, British, and Canadian Forces storm the beaches of normandy (Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword).
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Germans attempt to break through American forces in the Ardennes. NAZI troops forced to retreat.
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After a month of bitter fighting, U.S forces take the island of Iwo Jima.
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America's longest lasting president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, died as Allied forces approached Berlin.
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Rather than facing trial, Adolf Hitler and his newlywed wife, Eva Braun, commit suicide in Berlin headquarters.
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The first atomic bomb exploded in a desert in New Mexico.
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United States drops first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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3 days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the United States drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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Japan surrenders to U.S.A in a ceromony aboard the U.S battleship Missouri.
