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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the United States
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Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by German President Paul von Hindenburg. He was now in control.
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The invasion of Poland was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union; which marked the beginning of World War II.
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In response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.
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The evacuation from Dunkirk, involved the rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk
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Paris fell to Nazi Germany one month after the German Wehrmacht stormed into France.
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The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still being felt today
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