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Japan invades Manchuria for natural resources
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First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.
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Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
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German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws.
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Italy invades, conqures, and annexes Ethiopia
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German troops occupy the Rhineland
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Japan invades China initiating WWII in the Pacific
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Germany and Austria become united again.
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The Munich agreement was signed by; Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France.
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Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement
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Germany invades Poland
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Great Britian and France declare war on Germany for the invasion of PolND
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Nazis begin to euthinsia the sick and disabled in Germany
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Soviet Union invades Finland intitiating the Witner War. They sue for armissice and cede the northern shores of Lake Lagoda and the coast line along the Arctic Sea.
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Germany invades Denmark. They surrender the day of the attack.
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Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister. Also Germany invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
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Germany invades Norway on April 9th. Norway holds out until June 9th
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Germany begins attacking the Soviet Union, known as Operation Barbarossa.
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Stalin orders for the evacuated cities to be surned to the ground leaving no resources for the german soldiers.
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First experimental use of the gas chamber in Auschwitz.
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The final land connection was severed. THe siege had started and lasted 872 days
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The axis powers declare war on the U.S.
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Mass Murder of Jews by gas chambers begin at Auschwitz.
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U.S. and British navy halt the Japanese naval advance at Midway
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Germany launches a new attack at the Soviet Union and fight their way into Stalingrad on the Volga River
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U.S. halts the island-hopping advance towards Australia. Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
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German attempt at taking over the final major city in the Soviet Union. Largest loss for Hitler
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Germany and Italy are defeated at El Alamein, Egypt. They go into a chaotic retreat across Libya to Tunisia.
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The invasion of North Africa. First time Americans have seen live combat
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U.S, and British troops land on Sicily. By August the Allies control Sicily.
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Britian and U.S. successfully land at Normandy, opening the second front.
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Invasion of France
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Marked the formal end of the war in europe
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The U.S. drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan
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Japan surrenders ending World War II
