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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. His Nazi Party, takes power and Hitler is the dictator of Germany.
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Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy form the Rome-Berlin Axis treaty.
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, this was a pact against communism and Russia.
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World War II begins, Germany invades Poland.
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Germany invades and takes control of Denmark and Norway.
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Germany uses quick strikes (blitzkrieg), to take over much of western Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France.
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Germany launches an air attack on Great Britain, these attacks last until the end of October. Is known as the Battle of Britain.
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The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US entered World War II on the side of the Allies.
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Japan captured Singapore
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At the Battle of Midway, the US Navy defeats the Japanese navy.
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German troops surrender in Stalingrad (USSR)
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Axis troops in northern Africa surrendered.
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Italy surrenders to the Allies however, Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy.
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The U.S. forces invade Tarawa.
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D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied troops invade France and push back the Germans.
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The Japanese navy is defeated near the Philippines.
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The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge.
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US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima, after a fierce battle they capture the island.
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The US Army under General Patton crosses the Rhine River.
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US President Franklin Roosevelt dies, but he is succeeded by President Harry Truman.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide, when he realizes that Germany has lost the war.
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Germany surrenders to the Allies.
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The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Japan surrenders and signed an agreement (to end the war) to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies.
