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1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany after a series of electoral victories for the Nazi party. He ruled the country until his suicide in April 1945.
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On September 1, 1939, German forces under Adolf Hitler's control bombarded Poland from land and air. The Second World War had begun.
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World War II began in Europe when Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. In response, Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3. The war between the Soviet Union and Germany began on June 22, 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union
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Bill 885, passed on September 16, 1940, was the first peacetime draft in American history.
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The Japanese attack had several main aims. First, it sought to destroy important American fleet units, thereby preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japan's conquests of Dutch East Indies and Malaya and enabling Japan to conquer Southeast Asia undisturbed.
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The Women's Army (WAC) is the women's branch of the United States Army. On 15 May 1942, the British Army Association established an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). It was transferred to active duty in the United States Army on July 1, 1943, as WAC.
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Operation Torch was a British-American invasion of France, Morocco and Algeria during the North African Campaign in World War II. It began on November 8 and ended on November 16, 1942
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During World War II, Allied forces landed in Western Europe on June 6, 1944 (the most famous D-Day), and American, British and Canadian troops simultaneously landed on five different beachheads in Normandy, France
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On October 25, 1944, during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, the Japanese deploy kamikaze (“divine wind”) bombers against American warships for the first time
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January 27, 1945. The Soviet army enters Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz and liberates around 7,000 prisoners, most of whom are ill and dying.
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V-E Day is a day that is well remembered by all who witnessed the event. It means an end to nearly six years of war that has claimed millions of lives; Homes and families and cities destroyed; It has brought great suffering and poverty to all the people of the country.
