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Germany invades Norway and occupied Denmark
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German forces swept through Belgium and the Netherlands
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Germany Declared war on France and Britain
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German forces entered pairs, a new government formed by petain
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The Start of WWII
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Germany Attscking poland
Germany attacks Poland and it drove great Britain and France to declare war on Germany -
nazis choose the town of Oswiecim in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp.
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he war started in Belgium
on May 12, the French were summoned to french consult de France -
nazi invade Romania
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Hitler ordered invasion in the soviet union
Though Soviet tanks and aircraft greatly outnumbered the Germans’, their air technology was largely obsolete, and the impact of the surprise invasion helped Germans get within 200 miles of Moscow by mid-July -
e Siege of Leningrad
the German forces closed in around Soviet city of Leningrad -
360 Japanese aircraft
attacked the major U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, taking the Americans completely by surprise and claiming the lives of more than 2,300 troops. -
ss official Reinhard Heydrich held a meeting
of Nazi government officials to present the final solution. Meeting known as the Wannsee conference -
u.s General left the Philippines
but General pledged to return he accepted Japan's surrender -
Japanese winning major battles
and Japan attempts Australian invasion midway Guadalcanal -
The SS Inspectorate of Concentration Camps establishes the Herzogenbusch concentration camp in Vught, the Netherlands.
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German 6th army defeated at Stalingrad
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Bulgarian occupation authorities deport 11,343 Jews from Bulgarian-occupied Thrace, Macedonia, and Pirot to German custody
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Jewish prisoners revolt at the Treblinka killing center
Although around 200 prisoners escape, the members of the SS Special Detachment Treblinka, with support from locally stationed German Gendarmerie and military units, capture and kill most of those who attempted to escape -
he Inspectorate of Concentration Camps redesignates
the Buna subcamp of Auschwitz I as Concentration Camp Auschwitz III, or Monowitz. -
US president Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9417,
creating the War Refugee Board. Roosevelt instructs the War Refugee Board to take measures to rescue victims of enemy oppression in imminent danger of death -
allied forces invaded Normandy
to defeat the German and Axis forces -
allied forces invaded Normandy
to defeat the German and Axis forces -
he Japanese kamikaze suggested (divided wind) tactic by vice-admiral Onishi in an attempt to balance the technological advantage of invading American forces.
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Russians liberate Budapest feeing over 80,000 jews
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Hitler committed suicide
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Germany surrendered ending war in europe
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the end of WWII