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The start of the war, due to this event France and UK declare war to Germany
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After invading Poland Hitler decided to invade France, in June Paris falled,
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
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Germany continously bombarded England starting until October 1940, without any good results for them.
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Hitler ordered to invade URSS, almost reaching Moscú, but the winter and the strike back from the URSS made them fall back.
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Japan bombers Pearl Harbor, event that made the US join the war
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British troops defeat the Germans and Italians at El Alamein in Egypt, sending the Axis forces in chaotic retreat across Libya to the eastern border of Tunisia.
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The Fascist Grand Council deposes Benito Mussolini, enabling Italian marshall Pietro Badoglio to form a new government.
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British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans.
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Allied troops reach Paris. On August 25, Free French forces, supported by Allied troops, enter the French capital. By September, the Allies reach the German border; by December, virtually all of France, most of Belgium, and part of the southern Netherlands are liberated.
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The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in an attempt to re-conquer Belgium and split the Allied forces along the German border. By January 1, 1945, the Germans are in retreat.
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Hitler commits suicide
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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Japan surrenders, end of the war