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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by the previous President, Paul von Hindenburg.
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Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany kills over six million European Jews in mass genocide.
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Millions of British children are evacuated from their homes in order to protect them from Axis attacks.
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The world enters its second global war as the Allied Powers battle against Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and his Axis allies.
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William Golding returns from the battlefields of World War II and resumes his position as teacher and writer
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The United States drops the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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The United States drops its second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki and puts an end to World War II.
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William Golding publishes The Lord of the Flies, a novel inspired by his experiences during World War II. It was previously rejected by publishers multiple times.
