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Japan invades Manchuria
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Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany
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Germany invades Sudetenland
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Kristallnacht, or Night of the Broken Glass
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France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
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France surrenders to Germany
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Axis Powers sign the Tripartite Pact
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Pearl Harbor is bombed
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US declare war on Germany
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MacArthur leaves the Bataan Peninsula
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Women's Auxiliary Army Corps are formed
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Battle of Midway
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Soviets win the Battle of Stalingrad
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D-Day occurs a day later than planned
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Beginning of the Battle of the Bulge
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FDR dies and Truman becomes president
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Allies celebrate V-E Day
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Little Boy bombs Hiroshima
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Fat Man bombs Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders
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UN is established
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Berlin Airlift begins
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China becomes communist under Mao Zedong
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Korean War begins
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed as spies
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Korean War ends
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Brown v. Board of Education outlaws school segregation
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Soviets launch Sputnik
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NASA is established
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U-2 is shot down by the Soviets
