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Treaty is signed between Allies and the Central Powers. Germany got blamed for the entire war.
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On September 18th, in violation of all its treaty obligations, Japan occupied Machuria, in northeast China. It was the first step on the path to World War II.
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Beijing and Nanjing fell to the Japanese in 1937
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After the Invasion of Poland, Germany and France declared war on Germany...World War II have started.
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Germany took the northern part of France and established a puppet government in the southern part.
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Germany betrays the Soviet Union and breaks the Nonagression Pact.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. United States finally enters World War II.
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Soviets with the help of an extreme cold weather defeated the German army at Stalingrad.
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June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.”
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The B-29, "Enola Gay," piloted by the squadron commander, Col. Paul Tibbets, flew to Japan and dropped the bomb on August 6, 1945. The bomb was nicknamed “Little Boy” and used U-238 as its nuclear core. At 8:15 AM, the line from Hiroshima to Tokyo went dead. Reports started coming in that Hiroshima had been obliterated by air attack. Reports of the dead ranged from 75,000 to 180,000 dead; due to radiation, people would be dying for decades from cancer and birth defects.
