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Benito Mussolini
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Joseph Stalin comes to power
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Adolf Hitler become Chancellor of Germany
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Holocaust
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Germany and Russia sign Non-aggression pact
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Germany invades Poland starting WWII
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The Phony War begins
September 1939 to April 1940. Called the Phony war because during the first 6 months there were almost no fighting and bombs dropped. people thought that this war would end quickly. -
Battle of Atlantic
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Battle of Britain
Luftwaffe attempted to gain control of the Straights of Dover. The aim of the Luftwaffe was to tempt the RAF out for a full-scale battle. By the end the RAF had lost 150 aircrafts while the Luftwaffe had lost 268 aircrafts. In August the Luftwaffe started to attack fighter command airfields, opporation rooms and radar stations. -
US passes the Lend-lease Act
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Hitler invades Soviet Union
codename: "barbarossa" was the largest German military operation during WWII. this invasion broke the non-agression pact. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan launched a surprise attack on the atlantic fleet atationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. over 2400 Americans died, 21 ships sunk or damagedand more than 188 US planes were destroted. No US aircraft Carriers were destroyed because they were out on patrol. -
America Declares war
unanimous decision to enter war. was the day after Pearl Harbor. -
War Production Board was created
Supervised production for war purposes during WWII. replaced the supply priorities andallocation board and the office at production mangement. -
Executive order 9066 was put into effect
authorized the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zone. eventually cleared the way for deportation od Japanese Americans to Intermment Camps -
Battle of Coral Sea
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Battle of Midway
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Operation Torch
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invasion of Sicily / Italty
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Office of War Mobilization created
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D-Day
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Iwo Jima
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Okinawa
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Battle of Berlin
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Hitler commits suicide
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V-E Day
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
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End of WWII
