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Germany and Soviet Union divided Poland
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Blitzkrieg against Denmark and Norway
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Germany attacks the Netherlands, Belgium, and France
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French signed an armistice
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Hitler invades the Soviet Union
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The Luftwaffe launched a major attack on Britain
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Hitler starts bombing British cities
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Htiler postpones the invasion of Britian indefinitely
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Japanese aircraft attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor
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US forces won the Battle of Midway against Japan
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In the Battle of the Coral Sea American naval forces saved Australia from the Japanese
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British and American forces invade French North Africa
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German forces in Russia were back to their positions of June 1942
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Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered
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America and Britain forced the German and Italian troops to surrender
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Hitler knew Germans would not defeat the Soviet Union
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Battle of Kursk
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Rome fell to the Allies
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D-Day
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Soviet troops occupied Warsaw
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Hitler enters bunker under Berlin
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Allies crossed the Rhine River and advanced into Germany
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Allied armies in northern Germany met up with the Soviets
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Hitler commits suicide
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German commanders surrendered
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First bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima