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Great depression
Stock market crashed -
Hitler becomes Fuhrer
Hitler becomes Fuhrer when chancellorship and presidency are united -
FDR reelected president
President Roosevelt is re-elected. President Roosevelt is re-elected for a second term. -
Germany discovered nuclear fission
Germany-nuclear fission discovered -
D-day
battle the bulge -
Churchill becomes british Prime Minister
Winston Churchill Becomes british prime minister -
war bond
President Roosevelt buys the first War Bond. -
battle of Midway
American naval victory at Battle of Midway, in June, marks turning point in Pacific War. -
fight to death
Adolf Hitler orders German troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death. -
Jewish citizens
Jewish patients, nurses and doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau. -
Air attack
1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen) -
US marine
4th US marine division conquers Roi, Marshall Islands. -
first set foot
Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory. -
Truman
Truman becomes president -
liberated
German concetration camps liberated