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Hitler sends troops to the Rhineland, Surrounding countries use appeasement to avoid war.
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Hitler takes Austria after lining up troops at border.
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Germany got the Sudetenland and had to be friends with Austria and agreed to no further expansion.
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Germany and USSR sign Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact.
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Hitler invades Poland which causes Great Britain and France to enter the war.
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The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) conducted air raids on Great Britain.
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Great Britain won by using new technology, the RADAR.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union without warning which is suprising because they had the non-aggression pact signed.
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The bombing of Pearl Harbor was the United States's entry into World War 2 on the allied powers.
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The Battle of Midway was the major turning point for the allies.
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Genereal Eisenhower leads joint command through North Africa causing Germans to surrender.
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Germans were surrounded by the Soveit Union and surrendered.
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Also known as Operation Overlord, where the United States stormed the beaches of Normandy.
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On this day Hitler commited suicide.
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This day was the day there was victory in Europe also known as V-E Day.
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The United States dropped the first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The Soveit Union declares war on Japan breaking a nuetrality pact signed in 1940
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The second Atomic bomb was dropped three days after the first in Nagasaki.
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Between the Atomic bombs and the war with the Soveit Union Japan finally surrender to the Allies naming this day V-J Day.
