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Germany Invades Poland
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Britan, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany. After German Forces Go Deeper Into Poland.
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U.S declares a temporary national state of emergency
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Russia invades Poland
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Poland Surenders
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Finland and Russia Declare War on each other
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Russian and Finnsh war ends
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Germany invades Denmark and Noraway.
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Denmark Surenders To Germany
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Germany invades France, Holland, Belgium, and Luxemburg. Holland Surrenders four days after invasion.
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Germany invades Britan
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Noraway surenders to Germany
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Italy declares war on France and Britan
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France surdeners to Germany
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact, making Japan a part of the Axis.
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British troops capture Egyptian cities.
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Australian troops captrue Bardia, Libya.
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Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, becoming part of the Axis.
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President Roosevelt passes act allowing him to sell war goods to countries in need. Thus ending the neutrality.
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The U.S occupies Greenland. [[Why is it called Greenland if it is full of ICE!?]]
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German airborn troops defeat the British in Crete.
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Germany invades Russia. Italy and Romaina declare war on Russia.
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Hungray and Slovakia declare war on Russia.
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Finland declares war on Russia.
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The U.S starts supplying Russia with weapons.
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Russia evacuates its seat of goverment to Kuibyshev.
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Germany abandons it's attack on Moscow; Russaia counterattacks.
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Japan invades Hong Kong.
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The declaration of the United Nations is signed by the leaders of 26 nations.
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Both Britain and The U.S decide that defeating Germany was and should be the first Prioity.
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Japan invades Burma
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Japan invades Singapore
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U.S troops on Bataan in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
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Doolittle's raiders bomb Tokyo
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Germany decimates the Czech village of Lidice after Czech resistance fighters kill SS official Reinhard Heydrich.
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Germany begins deporting hundreds od thousands of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
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The Casablanca Conference between the U.S. and Britain begins. Roosevelt and Churchill agree that Germany must surrender unconditionally, and plan the Allied invasion of Sicily.
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U.S. troops complete the capture of Guadalcanal from the Japanese .
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins after German troops attempt to deport the ghetto's last surviving Jews. About 750 Jews fought back the Germans for almost a month.
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German troops crush the last resistance of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and kill thousands of Jews. The rest are sent to the Treblinka concentration camp to die.
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German troops occupy Rome. Mussolini soon declares himself the head of a new fascist Italian government in German-occupied northern Italy.
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Italy declares war on Germany
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Dwight Eisenhower is named supreme commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces.
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The Allies begin massive bombing campaign of Germany.
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German troops occupy Hungary.
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German troops surrender in the Crimea.
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Germany launches the first V-1 flying-bomb on Britain.
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The USSR retakes Minsk.
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German military leaders attempt but fail to kill Adolf Hitler in the Rastenburg Assassination Plot. Hitler then kills about 200 suspected plotters. U.S. troops make an amphibious assault on the Japanese -held island of Guam in the Marianas.
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The USSR invades German-occupied Romania.
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Germany launches the first V-2 flying-bomb on Britain
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U.S. B-29 bombers begin the massive bombing campaign against mainland Japan. In Europe, the Allies capture Strasbourg.
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U.S. troops hold Bastogne, stalling the German offensive in the Ardennes.
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Advancing from the East, Soviet troops capture Warsaw.
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The Allies begin firebombing Dresden, Germany, killing at least 135,000.
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Finland declares war on Germany.
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The Allies capture Hanover, Germany.
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Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide in a Berlin bunker as Soviet troops advance through the city. Nazi Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels is scheduled to become the new German Chancellor but he also kills himself -- after having his wife and six children killed. Karl Donitz is named as Hitler's successor.
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Germany surrenders unconditionally.
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V-E Day is declared -- Victory in Europe.
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The world's first atomic bomb is successfully tested in New Mexico -- The Trinity Test. The parts of the bombs to be dropped on Japan are already on their way. In Germany, the Potsdam Conference between the U.S., Britain, and the USSR begins. Disagreements over the future of Europe plant more seeds for the coming Cold War.
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Japan signs the formal surrender agreement on board the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay. World War II, the most devastating war in human history, is over.
