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Nazi invasion of Poland
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Soviets attack Finland
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
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A French man weeps as the Nazis march into Paris, June 14, 1940, beginning a four-year occupation of the 'City of Lights.'
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Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.
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United States freezes German and Italian assets in America
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Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz
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Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos.
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Italy declares war on Germany; Second American air raid on Schweinfurt.
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oviet troops capture Riga.
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THe first atomic bomb dropped on Japan