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Hitler Announces Creation of German Airforce
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German Troops enter Demilitarized Area of Rhineland
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Hitler Annexes Austria
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Germany Demands Sudetenland
Area in northwestern Czechoslovakia, inhabitated largely by Germans. -
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
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Germany Invades Poland
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Britain and France Declare war on Germany
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Blitzkreig Against Denmark and Norway
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Germany attacks Netherlands, Belgium, and France
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Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor & Philippines
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Battle of Coral Sea
American naval forces stop Japanese advance and save Australia from threat of invasion -
Battle of Midway
US airplanes destroyed 4 Japanese aircraft carriers. -
Hitler invades Soviet Union
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German 6th Army Lost at Stalingrad
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Axis Forces in Tunisia Surrender
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D-Day
U.S. lands on Normandy beaches including Omaha. General Dwight D Eisenhower is in charge of the attack. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
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Germany Surrenders
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Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
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Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki
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Japan Surrenders
