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Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started
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Russian ppl were angy and million of soldiers were dying in the war.
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USA declared war on Germany
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Second Battle of the Marne started. The start of the collapse of the German army
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World War 1 ended
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Germany signed an armistice with the Allies – the official date of the end of World War One.
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The Allies and teh Germans signed the Treaty of Versailles
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WW2
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Nazi burned synagogues and smashed the windows if jewish businesses.
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Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe.
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Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
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The Germans send the Afrika Korps to North Africa to reinforce the faltering Italians.
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Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria invade and dismember Yugoslavia.
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Nazi Germany and its Axis partners (except Bulgaria) invade the Soviet Union.
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A Soviet counteroffensive drives the Germans from the Moscow suburbs in chaotic retreat
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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Japan had conquered areas from China
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British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway.
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US and British troops land at several points on the beaches of Algeria and Morocco in French North Africa.
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Axis forces in Tunisia surrender to the Allies, ending the North African campaign.
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The Germans launch a massive tank offensive near Kursk in the Soviet Union.
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Allied troops land successfully near Anzio, just south of Rome.
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Allied troops liberate Rome.
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Anglo-American forces break out of the Normandy beachhead and race eastward towards Paris.
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Harry Truman too the precidence of United States
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Hitler commits suicide.
