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WWII officially starts
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Germany makes a Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland
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Germany invades Belgium and Holland
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Germany invades France
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German troops enter Paris, France
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Italy invades Greece
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Germany invades Greece
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Germany sieges Leningrad
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USA enters WWII
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Japan captures Singapore
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Japan invades Solomon Islands
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Battle of Midway
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Germany defeated by USSR at Kursk
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USA and Britain land in Sicily
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Italy declares war on Germany
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USA takes Marshall Islands
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Britain enters Belgium
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Allies invade Germany
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Battle of the Bulge
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German offensive in Ardennes
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USA launches atomic bomb over Nagasaki
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WWII officially ends
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Treaty of Paris 1947