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Hitler Becomes Chancellor
Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany -
Neutrality Act
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the 1937 Neutrality Act -
World War II Starts
Germany invades Poland -
Draft in the U.S. 1940
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Lend-Lease Program
Created to deliver arms to Great Britain to be paid for following the war's end. -
Operation Barbarossa
Code name for Nazi Germany's invasion
Ended on January 7, 1942 -
Seige of Leningrad
Ended at January 27, 1944 -
Bombing of Pearl Habor by Japanese
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Bataan Death March
*Battle on the Philippine Islands
*Japanese won
*Biggest U.S. Surrender
*General Douglas MacArthur promised he would return and save them, but not until 2 years later. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
*Major naval battle in the Pacific
*Ended on May 8, 1942 -
Battle of Midway
*Another crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific
*Ended on June 7, 1942 -
Operation Torch
Ends on November 10, 1942 -
Invasion of Sicily
Ended on August 17, 1943 -
D-Day Invasion of Normandy
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Battle of the Bulge
Ends on January 25, 1945 -
VE-Day
Germany Surrenders -
U.S. bombs Hiroshima
United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which kills 75,000 people instantly, and injured more than 100,000. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
The second atomic bomb dropped. -
VJ-Day
The war is over!!!
