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United States passes the nuetrality act, says that the United States cannot sell weapons or give loans to warring countries.
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Speech about how we must stop the spread of tolopritarian regimes.
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Hitler invades Poland marking the beginning of World War II.
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France and Britain declare war on Germany.
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Europan countries can get United States weapons but pay cash and pick them up themselves.
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Germany Invades Denmark and Norway.
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Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg, (lightning war), to take over much of western Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France.
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Winston Churchill becomes leader of the British government
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Italy enters the war as one of the Axsis powers
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Germany, Italy and France form the Axis Alliance.
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Germany and the other Axsis Powers attack Russia with four million troops.
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The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, the United States enters the war
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The United States Navy defeats Japan's navy at the Battle of Midway.
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The Allies invade and take the island of Sicily.
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Italy surrenders to the allies, but Germany helps Mussolini get away and set up a government in northern Italy.
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D day and the Normandy invasion.
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Paris is liberated from German control.
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The Germans lauch a large attack at the Battle of the Bulge. They lose.
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The United States invades the island of Iwo Jima and takes it.
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Germany Surrenders to the Allies.
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The United States Third Army crosses the Rhine River.
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FDR dies and is succeeded by Truman.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide because he is a sore loser.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was terrible.
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Yet another bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Japan surrenders to the United States and the rest of the Allies. WE WIN!
