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Mao Zedong heads long march being chased by Jiang's Nationalist Army, and is a 6000 mile long journey to northwest China.
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After Germany signs a non agression past with Russia, Germany invades Poland using its new "Blitzkreig" strategy, causing Great Britain and France to invade Germany.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the center the US Pacific Fleet, with Isoroku Yamamoto, Japan's greates naval strategists, leading and strategizing the attack. This caused the US to declare war on Japan and its allies.
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General Eisenhower accepts the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich from the German military, ending the war in Europe.
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The US and Russia set aside their differences and form the United Nations with 48 other countries. The UN is an international organization that was intended to protect the members against agression.
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Developed in the top secret Manhattan project by Robert Oppenheimer and headed by General Leslie Groves, two atom bombs are dropped, one in Hiroshima first, and then one in Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands of people.
