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Britain, France, Australia,and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
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The Nazi invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands.
Also Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister -
Japanese planes attack Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where half of our Navy was posted.They engage the US in the war.
Operations in the Pacific begin by Macarthur and McCain -
Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz. Which was one of the largest camps the Nazi's had established.
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In 1940, the German Nazis began to concentrate Poland's population of over three million Jews into a number of extremely crowded ghettos located in large Polish cities. The largest of these, the Warsaw Ghetto, concentrated approximately 300,000–400,000 people.
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General Dwight Eisenhower led the American, British, and Canadian forces to invade the beaches of Normandy, Fance.
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he plot was the culmination of the efforts of several groups in the German Resistance to overthrow the Nazi regime.
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Also called V-E day. Hitler and his wife take their lives.
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The first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshiman Japan,
Japan surrenders.