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  Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Phillippines, and Dutch East Indies
The United States enters the war - 
  
  Japan controls most of Southeast Asia
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  United States wins battles of Coral Sea and Midway
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  Germans attack Stalingrad
Britain and United States invade North Africa - 
  
  Germans surrender at Stalingrad
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  German and Italian troops surrender in French North Africa
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  Soviets defeat Germans at Battle of Kursk
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  Rome falls to Allies
D-Day June 6 - 
  
  Paris is liberated
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  Germany is invaded
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  Soviets enter Berlin
Hitler and Mussolini die - 
  
  Germany surrenders
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  United States drops atomic bombs on Japan
Japan surrenders 
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