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France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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Italy enters the war
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The Soviet Union forces Romainia to cede the eastern province of Bessarabia and northern half of Bukovina to the Soviet Ukraine
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The Italians invade British controlled Egypt from Italian controlled Libya
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Italy invades Greece from Albania on October 28
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The Germans send Afrika Korps to North Africa to reinforcethe faltering italians
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Bulgaria joins the Axis
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Leaders of the terroist Ustasa movement proclaim the Independent state Croatia
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Nazi germany and Axis partners invade the Soviet Union
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British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at midpoint
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Germany and axis partners launch a new offensive in the Soviet Union
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US troops halt the Japanese island hopping advance towards Australlia
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British troops defeat the Germans and Italians at El Alamein in Egypt
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Us troops and British troops land on the beahes of Algeria and Morcoco in french North Africa
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Axis forces in Tunisa surrender to the Allies
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Us and British troops land on Sicily,
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Badoglio government surrenders unconditionally tot he Allies
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Allied troops land successfully near Anzio, just south of Rome
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British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, which opened a second front
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Allied forces land in southern France near Nice and advance rapidly towards Rhine River
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Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders to the soviets
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The US drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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Japan fromally surrenders, ending World War 2