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Germany attacks Poland
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Soviets attack Finland
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Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviet
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President Hoover signs the Lend-Lease Act
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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Massive German air raid on Stalingrad
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Germans Surender at Stalingrad
Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies. -
Allied landings at Salerno and Taranto.
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First attack toward Cassino, Italy.
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Germans withdraw to the Adolf Hitler Line.
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D-Day
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Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland.
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Last German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary.
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Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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German troops in Italy surrender.
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Victory in Europe
Victory in Europe (V-E) Day is declared as German troops continue to surrender to Allies throughout Europe. -
First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.
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Japan surenders
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United Nations is born.
