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This event initated World War II in the Pacific.
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Great Britian, Germany, Italy, and France sign the munich agreement forcing Czechoslovak to give up the Sudetenland.
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Germany invades Denmark and France. Denmark surrneders on the day of the attack: France holds out until June 9th.
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign the nonaggression agreement.
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Germany invades Poland, which initiated WWII. The Polish government flees to Romainia.
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Great Britian and France delcare war on Germany, in honor of their guarantee of Poland's borders.
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Italy joind the war and invades France on June 21st.
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Germany, Italy and France signed the Tripartite Pact.
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This was an air war which ended in defeat for Nazi Germany.
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Japan bombs pearl harbor. 2,403 american casualties.
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Nazi Germany and Axis powers declare war on the United States.
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US and British troops land in Sicily, and the Allies control Sicily by mid-August.
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Allied troops liberate Rome, which allowed them to be able to hit bombing targets in eastern Germany for the first time.
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Brithosh and US troops land on the Normandy beach of France, opening the "sencond front" against the germans.
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Germans launch a final offense in the west, the battle of the bulge, to try and re-conquer Belguim and split the allied forces along the german border.
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Hitler commits suicide.
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The day US and Great Britain celebrate Victory in Europe Day. This was the day Germans throughout Europe surrender. Also more thad 13,000 British POW's were released.
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The Untied States droped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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The United Staes drops second bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Japan formally surrenders, ending WWII.
