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Germany invades Poland
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World War II
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Great Britain and France Declare war on Germany
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Germany conquers Norway, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark
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Germany defeats France
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US sends aid to Great Britain
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Japan joins the Axis Powers
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese
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The Axis declares war on the US, and the US declares war on the Axis
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Italy surrenders to the Allies
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Rome falls to the Allies
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D-Day
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Paris is freed
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Yalta Conference
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The US drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
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US President Franklin Roosevelt dies
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Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders to the Allies
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The US drops another atomic bomb, this time on the city of Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders and the war officially ends