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The Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident
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President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany
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A settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers
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A pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria
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An invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe
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The defence and evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe
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Japanese air forces bombed the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
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The forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war
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The United States Navy decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy
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160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy
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A major German offensive campaign launched through the dense Ardennes forest
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The World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA), Prime Minister Winston Churchill (United Kingdom), and Premier Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
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The formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
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The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II
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The day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II
