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Germany invaded Poland
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The French and British goverment declared war on Germany
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Soviet forces took control of part of eastern Poland
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French and British started minig Norwegian waters to stop the trade in iron ore
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In Britain Wiston Churchill came to power
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After months of waiting Hitler struck west
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Sensing that war was nearly over, Mussolini joined forces with Germany
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German planes bombed military sites, factories an the capital city, London
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Germany invaded the Soviet Union in an operation know to the German leaders as Barbarossa
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The German leaderchip decided on a "Final Solution" to the question of how Jewish people should be treated by the Nazi authorities
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The japanese went to war against the USA with a surprise attack
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Japanese forces seized control of much of Eastern Asia and the islands of the Pacific
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Germans renewed their attack on the USSR
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The USA stopped the tide if Japanes conquest at the Battle of Midway Island
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A fierce battle for the control of the southern city of Stalingrad
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The German army in north Africa was defeated by British forces at the Battle of El Alamein
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The German army surrendered at Stalingrad. The battel was a crucial event
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The Germans and Italians had been completely driven out of north Africa
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British and American forces landed in Italy
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Germans abandoned the Leningrad, which had been going on for over two years
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This was konown as "D Day"
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Rome was taken
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The British and American forces had reached Paris
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The Americans invaded the Philippines
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The Germans launched a counter attack in the Ardennes area of Belgium
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German power in Europe finaly collapsed
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The whole of Italy was under British and American control
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The German forces finally surrendered but the war continued against Japan
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Two atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cites of Hiroshima and Nagasaky
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The devastation caused by these bombs forced the Japanes goverment to surrundered.
