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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the 1937 Neutrality Act, which bans travel on belligerent ships, forbids the arming of American merchant ships trading with belligerents, and issues an arms embargo with warring nations.
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German troops invade Poland on the ground while Hitler's air force bombs Polish cities from the sky.
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Germany takes neutral Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg
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In the first major Allied offensive, British and U.S. armies attack Germany's Africa Korps on the Mediterranean chasing forces back toward Libya.
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Executive Order 9066 made the Japanese-Americans go into Internment camps
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In the first major Allied offensive, British and U.S. armies attack Germany's Africa Korps on the Mediterranean chasing forces back toward Libya.
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an airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, US and Canadian airborne troops shortly after midnight, and an amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armoured divisions
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Shot himself in the head in Berlin
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The German Army signs an unconditional surrender
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One of the major Theatres between the U.S. and the Japanese.
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The Little boy was dropped on Hiroshima
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Fat Man Dropped on Nagasaki
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The Fromal Surrender of Japan on the U.S. Batlle ship Missouri
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