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Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg.
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Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Gernamy are boycotted.
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Germany introduces military conscription
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German troops march into the Rhineland unopposed.
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Germany invades Poland, starting WWII in Europe.
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The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east.
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Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland.
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Denmark and Norway are invaded by Germany.
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Germany attacks western Europe (France and the Low Countries).
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The Battle of Britain begins.
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Yugoslavia and Greece are invaded by Germany.
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The Soviet Union is invaded by Germany.
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Eisatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
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The U.S. declares war on Japan.
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Nazi Germany declares war on the U.S.
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Germany launches a new offensive towards the city of Stalingrad.
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Warsaw ghetto uprising begins.
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Battle of Kursk
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Jews in Denmark are rescued.
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Kiev liberated by Soviet troops.
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Hungary occupied by German forces.
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Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary.
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D-Day: Normandy, France is invaded by Allied Forces.
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Anglo-American forces break out of Normandy.
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Warsaw Polish uprising begins.
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Allied forces land in southern France.
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Liberation of Paris.
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Battle of the Bulge.
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Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in northern Poland.
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Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland.
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The Auschwitz camp complex is liberated by Soviet troops.
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U.S. troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen.
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The Soviets launch their final offensive, surrounding Berlin.
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The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by American forces.
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Adolph Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets.