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Fascist Invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement
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Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss
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Hitler invades Poland on September 1st
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Honoring their guarantee of Poland's borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Italy enters the war as a member of the Axis powers
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the tripartite pact creating the Axis Alliance
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Four million troops poured over the Russian border
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Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia with a huge force of over four million troops
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Japanese bombed the Pearl Harbor
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Allied forces invaded northern France
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Paris is liberated from German control
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US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima
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The US Third Army under General Patton crosses the Rhine River
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US President Franklin Roosevelt dies.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders to the Allies
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Mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of WWII
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The Untied States drops the Atomic bomb on Japan
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Japan finally surrendered formally
