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Nazi Invasion of Poland
There invasion took place one week after signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It ended September 6, 1939, with the Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland. -
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Red Army captures Kaluga
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First Atomic Bombing in Japan
The U.S. conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagaski in Japan. The first was on August 6 and the second on August 9. These events are the only active deployments of nuclear weapons in any war.