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WW2 started when Hitler invaded poland. Consequently France and Britain declared war on HItler.
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Polish army was defeated in weeks
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the Germans began the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which lasted three and a half months, http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-battle-of-britain-begins
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It was a defensive military alliance .The Tripartite Pact was directed primarily at the United States. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-tripartite-pact-is-signed-by-germany-italy-and-japan
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Because Romania was a member of the Axis powers, it entered the war against the Soviet Union
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The invasion breaks the non-aggression pact signed by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939.
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Surprise attack by the Japanese force at the naval base in Hawaii . Attack killed 2,403 americans
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U.S. declared war in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the day before
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Germany and Italy announced they were at war with the United States. America immediately responded by declaring war on the two Axis powers.
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major battle on the Eastern Front in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad
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Surrounding was their only chance at surviving http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-surrender-at-stalingrad
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"The first V-1s were launched against London on June 13, 1944, a week after the D-Day landings. During the first V-1 bombing campaign, up to 100 V-1s fell every hour on London. Over an 80 day period, more than 6,000 people were killed, with over 17,000 injured and a million buildings wrecked or damaged."
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The Allies capture the fortified town and port of Cherbourg, in northwest France, freeing it from German occupation.
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German officials had made up their minds that Hitler must die. He was leading Germany in a suicidal war on two fronts, and assassination was the only way to stop him.
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French General Jacques Leclerc enters the free French capital triumphantly. Pockets of German intransigence remained, but Paris was free from German control.
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“Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
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He swallows a cyanide pill and then shooting himself in the head http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide
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Victory in Europe http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe
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The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people.http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
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just a day after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan submits its acquiescence to the Potsdam Conference terms of unconditional surrender, as President Harry S. Truman orders a halt to atomic bombing.
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WW2 ends when Japan surrenders
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The United Nations was born of perceived necessity, as a means of better arbitrating international conflict and negotiating peace than was provided for by the old League of Nations.
