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HItler becomes the leader of the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) party
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Fascist leader Benito Mussolini is appointed the Premier of Italy.
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Mussolini dismissed the Italian parliment ending democray in Italy
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Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
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Hitler makes all other german governments illegal
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Mussolini and Hitler announce The ome berlin allince forming the Axis power
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Germany invades Austria and annexes it the day after
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Germany, Britain, France, and Italy sign the Munich Pact giving Germany to permission to invade the Sudeten territories of Czechoslovakia
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german forces enter prague and finish the conquering of Czechoslovakia ignoring the Munich Pact
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Britain says they will support poland
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Italy invades Albany
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Allies and Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Poland sign a non-agression pact
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Germany and the USSR sign a non-agression pact
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Germant starts to invade Poland
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Germany penetrates deeper into Poland.
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Canada declares war on Germany
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USSR invades eastern Poland
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Poland surrenders to german Forces
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USSR invades Finland starting the russo-Finnish war
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The first canadian troops enter Europe
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Finland Surrenders to the USSR bringing the Russo-Finnish war to and end
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Denmark surrenders to Germany Germany invades Norway
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Winston Churchill becomes the new prime minister of britian replacing Chamberlain, Germany invade the Netherlands, who surrender 4 days later Germany invades Belgium
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Britian starts operation Dynamo bring british forces off the coast of Belgium
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Belgium surrenders to Germany
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Italy declares war on France and Britain Norway surrenders to Germany
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USSR invades the Bltic states
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France surrenders to Germany
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Italy invades the Britsh controlled Somililand startinf WWII in Africa
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Italy invades Egypt
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Japan becomes part of the Axis powers
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Germany invades Romania
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Hungary and Romania join the Axis powers
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Bulgaria joins axis
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Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
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USA occupies greenland
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he USSR and Japan sign a neutrality pact agreeign to not attack each other
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Germany invades Russia starting Operation Barbarossa. Italy and Romania declare war on the USSR thereby supporting Germany Hungary and Slovakia declare war ont eh USSR the next day Finland also declares war on the USSR on the 26th
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USA occupies Iceland
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USA and Britain sign the Atlantic Charter declaring their joint opposition to facism
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Germany starts to drive toward Moscow, Russia
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Britain gives Finland the ultimatum: stop offensive acts against the USSR or go to war with the allied powers
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Germany stops pushing toward Moscow; The USSR counter attacks
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAnOtWm5OrM Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
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The allies -except the USSr- declare war on Japan germany and Italy declare war on the U.S. 3 days later
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The U.S. and Britain conclude the Arcadia Conference in Washington, DC. Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to establish a Combined Chiefs of Staff and to the make defeating Germany their first priority. Winning the war in Europe would come before winning the war in the Pacific. heres a link about it
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Germany holds the Wannsee Conference in Berlin to find a "Final Solution" for the Jews.
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The U.S. defeat the Japanese at the Battle of Midway. Together with the Battle of the Coral Sea, this marks the turning point in the war in the Pacific.
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The manhattan project begins and development of the atomic bomb comenceses
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Germany begins deporting hundreds of thousands of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
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The Allies invade North Africa, beginning Operation Torch. U.S. forces landed in Algeria, Oran, and Casablanca.
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Over 90,000 German troops at Stalingrad surrender to the Soviets. It is a significant turning point in the war against Germany.
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Axis forces in North Africa surrender.
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British troops land on mainland Italy, beginning the Allied campaign in Italy. American troops land six days later. The new Italian government formally surrenders.
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Italy declares war on Germany.
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The allies start bombing runs on germany
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D-day in Germany happens
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The Allies liberate many contries and concentration camps
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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.
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the allies continue to capture and liberate cities all over Europe
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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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The first atomic bomb is tested in new mexico and japan is given the ultimatum to unconditionally surrender or be destroyed they get destroyed
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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.