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The German army marches into Poland.
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Due to the mutual assistance treaty Britain had signed with Poland, Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand all declare war on Germany.
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The battle of the atlantic begins.
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Soviet Union sends troops into Poland.
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Hitler orders the widespred 'mercy killing" of the sick and disabled. This was the begining of the Nazi killing centers and death camps.
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Germany moves troops into Scandanavia.
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Winstion Churchill also becomes British Prime Minister.
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Nazis drop bombs on Paris.
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Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France.
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Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munic; Soviets begin occupation of the Baltic States.
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German U boats attack merchant ships in the atlantic ocean.
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The batle of Britain begins.
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Germany begins bombing airfields and factories in England.
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Germany plans Operation Sea lion against Britain and commences blitzing British targets.
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Germany carries out air raids on London, Liverpool, and Manchester.
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Germany signs Axis pact with Italy and Japan.
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Hungary joins the Axis powers.
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Romainia joins the Axis powers.
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Tobruk in North Africa falls to the British and Australians.
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British forces advanced into Italian Somaliland in East Africa.
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First units of the German Afrika Korps arrive in North Africa.
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Britsh forces arrive in Greece.
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Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.
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Hitler declares war on The United States.
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Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.
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Greece surrenders to the Nazis.
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German attack on Tobruk is repusled.
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Heavy German bombing of London; The British bomb Hamburg.
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Operation Brevity begins (The British counter-attack in Egypt)
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Pro-Allied government installed in Iraq.
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Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
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Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.
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Nazi SS-Einsatzgruppen begin mass murder.
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Göring instructs Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution.
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Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.
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First experimental use of gas chambers in Auschwitz.
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Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev.
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Soviet army launches a major counter attack around Moscow.
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The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree.
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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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Hitler takes complete control of Germany.
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Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.
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Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with "unconditional German surrender."
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First American forces arrive in Great Britain.
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Japanese-Americans sent to relocation centers.
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First thousand-bomber British air raid (against Cologne).
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Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.
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Nazis liquidate Lidice in reprisal for Heydrich's assassination.
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First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp opened.
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Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos.
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British Foreign Secretary Eden tells the British House of Commons of mass executions of Jews by Nazis; U.S. declares those crimes will be avenged.
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Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad.
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Montgomery's Eighth Army takes Tripoli.
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First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven).
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
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Battle of Atlantic climaxes with 27 merchant ships sunk by German U-boats.
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Axis forces in Tunisia begin a withdrawal toward Enfidaville as American and British forces link.
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Waffen-SS attacks Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto.
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German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa.
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Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk.
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Allies bomb Rome.
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Leningrad relieved after a 900-day siege.
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Soviet troops begin an offensive on the Belorussian front; First major daylight bombing raid on Berlin by the Allies.
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British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany.
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Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea.
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Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes.
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Soviet troops recapture Sevastopol.
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Germans surrender in the Crimea.
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Germans withdraw to the Adolf Hitler Line.
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Germans retreat from Anzio.
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D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.
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600 people are massacred by German troops in the french town of Oradour-sur-Glane. While the men are shot immmediately, the woman and children are locked in a church the alter is set on fire those who tried to escape the flames are shot.
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First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain.
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U.S. troops liberate Cherbourg, France
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'Battle of the Hedgerows' in Normandy; Soviets capture Minsk. The Russian city in Minsk is retaken by Russian troops, and 100,000 Germans are captured.
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British and Canadian troops capture Caen, France.
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Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails.
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Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland.
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Operation Dragoon begins (the Allied invasion of Southern France).
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Liberation of Paris.
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Verdun, Dieppe, Artois, Rouen, Abbeville, Antwerp and Brussels liberated by Allies.
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Warsaw Uprising ends as the Polish Home Army surrenders to the Germans.
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Allies liberate Athens; Rommel commits suicide.
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Massive German surrender at Aachen, Germany.
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Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.
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Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids.
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Allies discover stolen Nazi art and wealth hidden in German salt mines.
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Allies liberate Buchenwald and Belsen concentration camps; President Roosevelt dies. Harry Truman becomes President.
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Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg.
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Mussolini is captured and hung by Italian partisans; Allies take Venice.
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HItler marries his mistress Eva Braun he then poisions her and kills himself. The remains were never recoverd.
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Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies.
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Victory in Europe day.
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Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government.
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United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
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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.
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Japanese sign the surrender agreement; V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.
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World war II is offically over.
