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Japan invades Manchuria.
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WWII Time Line
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Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation on October 25; on November 1, the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced.
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Japan Invades China starting WWII in the Pacific
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Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe.
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Germany attacks western Europe—France and the neutral Low Countries. Luxembourg is occupied on May 10; the Netherlands surrenders on May 14; and Belgium surrenders on May 28. On June 22, France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the
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Germany and Axis powers Invade Soviet Union
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
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British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway.
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Axis forces in Tunisia surrender to the Allies, ending the North African campaign.
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British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.
