WWII Timeline

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    Nuremberg (Anti-Jewish) Laws Enacted

    Europe
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    Anschluss - German Annexation of Austria

    Europe
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Europe
  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Europe
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    Kristallnacht - Night of Broken Glass

    Europe
  • Italy, Led by Mussolini allied with Germany

    Europe
  • Britain and France Declare War on Germany

    Europe
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    Miracle of Dunkirk - Operation Dynamo

    Europe
  • Battle of Midway

    Pacific
  • Germany Takes Paris

    Europe
  • Battle of Britain

    Europe
  • Warsaw Ghetto Created

    Europe
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    Nuremberg Trials - Nazis Put on Trial for War Crimes

    Europe
  • Hitler invades Soviet Union

    Europe
  • Operation Torch

    Europe
  • Attack of Pearl Harbor

    Pacific
  • US Enters the War and Declares War on Japan

    Pacific
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    Bataan Death March

    Pacific
  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    Pacific
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Europe
  • Battle of Berlin

    Europe
  • Italy Surrenders

    Europe
  • D-Day Allied Invasion

    Europe
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    Battle of Saipan

    Pacific
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    Liberation of Paris

    Europe
  • Battle of Leyte Gulf

    Pacific
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Europe
  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    Europe
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Pacific
  • Battle of Okinawa

    Pacific
  • Mussolini Captured and Executed

    Europe
  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Europe
  • Germany Surrenders

    Europe
  • VE Day (Victory in Europe)

    Europe
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    Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Pacific
  • Japan Surrenders Ending the War

    Pacific
  • United Nations formed

    Europe