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Major events of WWII
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Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
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United States and Britain declare war on Japan
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Hitler declares war on the United States
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Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos
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First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven)
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies
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Italian surrender to Allies is announced.
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D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.
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Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta.
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First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan
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Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Japan Signs surrender agreement