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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany. This means lots of killing. Germany begins legal discrimination against the Jews
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Franklin D. Rosevelt re-elected as presedent
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Japan and Germany make an alliance called the Axis powers
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Garmany invades Poland and captures it in 1 day
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Pearl Harbor is attacked by Japan sinking lots of ships and destroying planes and air feilds. This is what made the US go to war
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On June 6th 1944 US troops invaded the beaches Juno, Omaha, Swoard, Gold, Utha in Normady France.
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Germany launches the first V-1 rocket attack on Britain on June 13. These first rockets reached a hight of about 3,000 feet and traveled at 350 miles per hour.
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US troops break out of normady and advance across France.
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Germany begins using V-2 rockets against Britain. The V-2 travels faster than the speed of sound, reaching a height of 50 miles before turning downward toward its target at nearly 4,000 miles per hour. More than a thousand V-2 rockets were fired at London, each carrying a 2,000-pound warhead.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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On July 16, the US successfully tests the first atomic bomb in the desert of New Mexico. This "Trinity" explosion was equivalent to 20 kilotons (20,000 tons) of TNT
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The US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the bomb was named Little boy
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the second atomic bomb was dropedd on Nagisaki
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Japan surrendures unconditionaly to the US