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Battle of Britain
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Japan joins Axis
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Hitler breaks Non-Aggression pact
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U-boats sink merchant vessels
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FDR approves “shoot on sight”
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Pearl Harbor attacked
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Japanese ambassadors arrive in Washington, DC
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Germany and Italy declare war on US
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MacArthur promises to return
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Bataan death march
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Battle of Coral Sea
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Battle of Midway
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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General Eisenhower and his forces land in North Africa
They were there because France was heavily secured, oil, and the major water way to asia the suezcanel. -
Vichy France begins
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End of Battle of Stalingrad
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Sicily falls
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Rome falls
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D-Day
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MacArthur returns
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Battle of the Bulge
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Kamikaze attacks begin
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US flag raised on Mt. Suribachi
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Truman becomes president
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Hitler commits suicide
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V-E Day
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Okinawa taken
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Hiroshima
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Nagasaki
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V- J Day
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formal surrender of Japan