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  Germany invades Poland, World War 2 begins.
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  The evacuation at Dunkirk ends. 338,000 troops were rescued. Churchill declares that Britain will never surrender
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  British forces in Egypt counter attack the Italians and advance along the Libyan coast
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  Hitler sends Rommel and the Afrika Korps to help the Italians in North Africa
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  The Japanese Navy attacks Pearl Harbor and the Phillipines, and the US joins the war.
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  The battle of Midway. Four Japanese carriers are sunk, and one American carrier. Japan's naval superiority is lost.
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  Italy surrenders. The German forces in northern and central Italy occupy it
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  The Russians reach the old German-Russian border in central Poland
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  The Marines land in Leyte, in the Philippines. In response, the Japanese Navy begins to use Kamikaze suicide pilots.
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  The first atomic bomb dropped on Japan