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Adold Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. His Nazi Party takes power and Hitler is essentially the dictator of Germany.
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Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy form the Rome-Berlin Axis treaty.
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact. This was a pact against communism and Russia.
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Japan invades China
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Hitler attacks the country of Austria into Germany. This is also called the Anschluss.
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Germany invades Poland. World War II begins.
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France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
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Germany invades and takes control of Denamrk and Norway until June 9th, 1940
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Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg, meaning lightning war, to take over much of western Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France.
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Winston Churchill becomes a leader of the British government
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Italy enters the war as a member of the Axis powers
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Germany launches an air attack on Great Britain. These attacks last until the end of October and are known as the Battle of Britain
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance
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Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia with a huge force of over four million troops
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The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor.
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The US enters World War II on the side of the Allies
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The US navy defeats Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway
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The Allies invade and take the island of Sicily
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Italys surrenders to the Allies, however Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy
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D-day and the Norway invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans.
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Paris is set free from German control
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The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. They lose to the allies sealing the fate of the German army
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US marines invade the island of Iwo Jima. After a fierce battle they capture the island
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The US Third Army under General Patton crosses the Rhine River
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US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. He is sicceeded by President Harry Truman
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the war
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Germany surrenders to the Allies
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Germany surrendered unconditionally on 7 May, and the following day was celebrated as VE (Victory in Europe) day. The war in Europe was over.
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The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The city is devastated
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Three days later after Hiroshima was bombed another was dropped on Nagasaki.
