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Germany invades Poland
Beginning of WWII -
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WWII
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Allies declare war on Germany
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Germany invades France
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Miracle of Dunkirk
British soldiers, trapped between the English Channel and advancing German soldiers, are saved from France. 300,000 troops are saved. -
France surrenders
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Battle of Britain begins
Germany begins bombing Britain - Operation Sea Lion -
Lend-Lease Act
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Operation Barbarossa
The German invasion of Russia begins. -
FDR and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
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Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz
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Battle of Stalingrad begins
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Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland
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Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist govt. falls
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After being rescued by Germany, Mussolini re-establishes his govt.
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D-Day
Allied forces storm the shores on the northern coast of France -
Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz
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Mussolini is captured and killed by Italian partisans
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Hitler commits suicide
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Victory in Europe Day
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First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
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Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan
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Victory over Japan Day
