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Germany, Italy , Britain and France signed the Munich Pact that an obligation Czechoslovak Republic, a bow to Nazi Germany the Sudetenland , including the defensive positions Czechoslovak.
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France and Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state .
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement and a codicil dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence .
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In order of its commitment to ensure the integrity of the borders of Poland , Britain and France declare war on Germany .
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Warsaw surrendered on September 27 . The Polish government exiled via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divided Poland territory .
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German authorities began the forced deportation of Jews from West Prussia, Poznan , Gdansk and Lodz (also in annexed Poland) to locations in the General Government .
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The Soviet Union invades Finland and initiates the call Winter War. Finns ask an armistice and have to cede to the Soviet Union the northern shores of Lake Lagoda and a small portion of the Finnish coastline on the Arctic Sea.
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Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway refuses to 9 June.
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Germany attacks Western Europe : France and the Netherlands, which were neutral ; Luxembourg is occupied on May 10 ; Netherlands surrenders on May 14 ; and Belgium surrenders on 28 that month. On June 22 , France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coast. In southern France, a collaborationist regime with its capital in Vichy is established.
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The SS authorities established the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz I) outside the Polish town of Oswiecim
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Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21 .
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The Soviet Union occupied the Baltic states between 14 and 18 June, communists machine blows in each of them between 14 and 15 July and are attached as Soviet republics between 3 and 6 August.
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The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends with the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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The Italians invade Egypt ( under British control) from Libya ( under Italian control ) .
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Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact .
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Slovakia ( November 23 ) , Hungary ( November 20 ) and Romania ( November 22 ) join the Axis.
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Germany, Italy , Hungary and Bulgaria invade and dismember Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia surrenders on April 17 . Germany and Bulgaria invade Greece in support of the Italians. Resistance in Greece ceases in early June 1941
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Nazi Germany and its Axis partners (except Bulgaria ) invade the Soviet Union. Finland , seeking redress territorial losses of the armistice that ended the Winter War , joins the Axis just before the invasion. The Germans quickly invade the Baltic states and, together with the Finns, lay siege to Leningrad (St. Petersburg ) in September. In the center, the Germans capture Smolensk in early August and move to Moscow in October. In the south , German and Romanian troops took Kiev ( Kyiv) in Septem
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A Soviet counteroffensive forced the Germans outside Moscow is chaotic retreat .
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U.S han been neutral throughout WWII, but after Japan bombed Pear Harbour in Hawai, the U.S. joined the allies in their fight against the central powers.
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United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II . Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina (Vietnam , Laos , Cambodia ), and British Singapore. In April 1942 , the Philippines, Indochina , and Singapore are under Japanese occupation.
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Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.
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The British bomb Köln ( Cologne) and take first war inside Germany . Over the next three years Anglo- American bombing reduces to rubble German cities
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Germany and its Axis partners launch a new offensive in the Soviet Union. German troops fighting to enter Stalingrad ( Volgograd ) on the Volga River by mid-September and penetrate deep into the Caucasus after securing the Crimean Peninsula .
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US troops slow the Japanese advance from island to island in the direction of Australia , on Guadalcanal , in the Solomon Islands.
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British troops defeat the Germans and Italians at El Alamein ( Egypt) and push the Axis forces in chaotic retreat across Libya to the eastern border of Tunisia
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US and British troops land at several points on the coast of Algeria and Morocco in French North Africa. The failed defense of the Vichy French troops against the invasion enables the Allies to move quickly to the western border of Tunisia and triggers the German occupation of southern France on November 11 .
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Soviet troops fight back , cross the Hungarian and Romanian lines northwest and southwest of Stalingrad and trapping the German Sixth Army in the city. With the ban on Hitler to withdraw or escape the Soviet site , survivors of the Sixth Army surrender on January 30 and February 2, 1943 .
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US and British troops land in Sicily. In mid-August , the Allies control Sicily.
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The Fascist Grand Council deposes Benito Mussolini and allows the Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio to form a new government.
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The Badoglio government surrenders unconditionally to the Allies . The Germans immediately seize control of Rome and northern Italy , establishing a puppet Fascist regime under Mussolini , who is freed from imprisonment by German commandos on September 12 .
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Fearing Hungary's intention to abandon the Axis alliance , the Germans occupy Hungary and compel the regent , Admiral Miklos Horthy, to appoint a pro-German Prime Minister
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Allied troops liberate Rome. Within six weeks, Anglo- American bombers first hit targets in eastern Germany
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British and US troops successfully land on the coast of Normandy (France) and open a " second front " against the Germans.
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The Soviets launch a massive offensive in eastern Belarus and destroy the German Army Group Centre and move west toward the river Vistula opposite Warsaw in central Poland , on 1st august.
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The Anglo -American forces out of the Normandy beachhead and moving rapidly eastward towards Paris.
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Allied forces land in southern France near Nice and advance rapidly towards the Rhine River to the northeast direction.
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Allied troops arrive to Paris. On August 25 , Free French forces , supported by Allied troops , enter the French capital. In September , the Allies reach the German border. In December, almost all of France , most of Belgium and part of the southern Netherlands are liberated .
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Finland concludes an armistice with the Soviet Union, leaving the Axis alliance .
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Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the Battle of the Bulge , in an attempt to reconquer Belgium and split the Allied forces stationed along the German border. The January 1, 1945 , the Germans are in retreat .
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The Soviets launch a new offensive , liberate Warsaw and Krakow in January ; February 13 , after a siege of two months , take Budapest ; in early April Hungary to expel the Germans and their Hungarian collaborators; April 4 , with the capture of Bratislava, Slovakia force to surrender ; and take Vienna on April 13 .
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Partisan units , led by Yugoslav Communist leader Josip Tito , take Zagreb and entrap the Ustasha regime. The main Ustasha leaders flee to Italy and Austria.
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The Soviets launch their final offensive, surrounding Berlin.
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Benito Mussolini is killed in Rome with his wife.
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Hitler commits suicide in a bunker with his family.
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Allied troops conquer Okinawa, the last island before reaching the Japanese islands.
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In August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.
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The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
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In August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.
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Japan , having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945 , he formally surrenders and the Second World War ends .
