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Japan invades China, initiating war in Pacific
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Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, giving Germany the Sudentenland in the Czechoslovak Republic
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Germany and Soviet Union sign a nonagression pact and agree to split Poland
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Germany invades Poland, initiating WWII
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Great Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Italy enters the war and invades southern France
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Itlay invades Greece from Albania
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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Axis powers declare war on USA
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US defeats Japan at the Battle at Midway; a turning point in the war
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US and Great Britain take over the island of Sicily
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British and US troops sucessfully launch an attack on Normandy , creating a second front to fight the Germans
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Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders to the Western Allies and Soviets
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US drpos atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing thousands of civilians
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US drops second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan
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Japan formally surrenders, ending WWII
