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Signng of the Treaty of Versailles
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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power
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German President Hindenburg dies
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Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles
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German Jews are stripped of rights by Nuremberg race laws
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German military mobilizes
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Kristallnacht
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Nazi Germany invades Poland
Nazi Germany invades poland -
Britian, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany
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Nazis and the Soviets divide up Poland
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Nazis invade Denmark and Norway
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
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Germans bomb Paris
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Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France
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France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany.
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Battle of Britain begins
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Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
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United States and Britain declare war on Japan
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Hitler declares war on the United States.
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Germans begin a drive toward Stalingrad in the USSR
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Battle of Stalingrad begins
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Operation Supercharge (Allies break Axis lines at El Alamein).
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Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad begins
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Rommel withdraws from El Agheila
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Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies
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Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa
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Allies take Tunisia
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German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa.
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Allies land in Sicily
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Italian surrender to Allies is announced
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D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.
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Liberation of Paris.
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Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland
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Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies.
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First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.
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Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Japanese agree to unconditional surrender.
