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World War 2begins when Germany invades Poland
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Britian and France delcare war on Germany.
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Soviet Union invades Poland per the secret German-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty
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The last of Polands forces surrender to Poland.
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The British began to ration their suppiles.
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The Nazi parties began establishing Ghettos in Poland, which have poor living conditons.
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Germany invades Norway and Denmark and will soon conquer both countries.
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Germany conquers France. German troops occupy northern and western France.
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Battle of the Atlantic begins as German submarines, called U-boats, begin sinking ships carrying oil and other war supplies from America to England
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The United States cuts off oil exports to Japan after they began to occupy the French colony of Indochina.
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Hitler cancels Invasion of Britain
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Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto begins planning an air attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Bulgaria joins the Axis power, so they can get help when Germany invades
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More than three million German troops invade the Soviet Union.
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Japanese Army and Navy officers say Japan should “get ready for war” against the United States. Gen. Hideki Tojo becomes prime minister in a military-controlled government.
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General deportations began from Germany to major ghettos in Poland and further east. Also, Jews from Austria and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were sent to the ghettos.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. Almost at the same time, Japanese warplanes attack the Philippines and two U.S. islands: Wake and Guam, which are later occupied.
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One day after Pearl Harbor U.S declares war on Japan.
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Sixteen U.S. bombers, led by Lt. Col. James Doolittle, take off from an aircraft carrier 800 miles (1300 kilometers) off Tokyo and make the first bombing raid against Japan.
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The U.S. government forces thousands of Japanese-Americans to move from the U.S. West Coast to “relocation” camps in isolated areas.
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The Soviet Red Army, turning the tide of war, begins an offensive that will end in the capture of Berlin in 1945.
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U.S. code breakers intercept a Japanese radio message saying that Admiral Yamamoto is flying to the Solomon Islands. He is killed when U.S. fighters shoot down his plane.
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Italy surrenders. But German troops, continuing to fight the Allies in Italy, seize Rome.
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On D-Day, June 6, 155,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy, France, to begin the liberation of Europe.
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, the next day an atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima
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Japan surrenders and the war ends.