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League of Nations meets for the first time
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World War 2 by Nick L.
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Adolf Hitler...
Adolf Hitler assumes control of National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party -
Benito Mussolini...
Benito Mussolini calls for fascist "Blackshirts" to March on Rome -
Mussolini appointed Premier by King Victor Emmanuel III
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Hitler's Munich Beer Hall Putsch fails
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Mussolini dismisses Italian parliament...
Mussolini dismisses Italian parliament, begins to assume dictatorial powers -
Hitler's autobiography, Mein Kampf, is published
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Wall Street Stock Market crashes
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Japanese Army invades Manchuria
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Roosevelt elected...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected President of the United States -
Hitler for Chancellor...
Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg -
German Reichstag...
German Reichstag burns down; communists blamed, arrested. -
Enabling Act...
Enabling Act passed by Reichstag; Hitler assumes dictatorial power -
Nazi Party...
Nazi party declared official party of Germany; all other parties banned -
Germany quits League of Nations
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Hitler's Order...
Hitler orders murder of SA Chief Ernst Roehm in "Night of the Long Knives" -
German President Paul von Hindenburg dies
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Hitler combines the offices of president and chancellor
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Military conscription...
Military conscription introduced in Germany in violation of Versailles treaty -
Nuremberg race laws promulgated
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German Troops...
German troops remilitarize the Rhineland in violation of Versailles treaty -
Franco becomes dictator of Spain
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Rome-Berlin "Axis" alliance formed
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Japan withdraws...
Japan withdraws from Washington Conference Treaty limiting the size of its navy -
Neville Chamberlain...
Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of England -
Josef Stalin begins purge of Red Army
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Full-scale war erupts between China and Japan
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Germany invades Austria; Anschluss (union) proclaimed
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Germany invades Austria; Anschluss (union) proclaimed
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Germany invades Austria; Anschluss (union) proclaimed
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Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
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German troops...
German troops occupy the rest of Czechoslovakia in violation of Munich Agreement -
Nazi-Soviet nonagression pact signed
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German Army invades Poland
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Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Soviet Union kicked out of League of Nations
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Warsaw falls to the Nazis
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Finland signs peace treaty with Soviet Union
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German Army invades Denmark and Norway
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German Army invades...
German Army invades France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill appointed British Prime Minister -
Holland capitulates to Nazis
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"Miracle at Dunkirk"
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Belgium capitulates to Nazis
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Norway capitulates to Nazis...
Norway capitulates to Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France -
Nazis take Paris
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France capitulates to Nazis
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Battle of Britain begins
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Luftwaffe begins raids on British airfields & aircraft factories
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Off-course German bombers accidentally bomb London
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German "blitz" on British cities begins in earnest
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German troops occupy Romania
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Roosevelt re-elected
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Romania joins Axis
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British counter-attack begins against Italian Army
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British take Tobruk in North Africa from Nazis
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British Army attacks Italian Somaliland
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British Army comes to the aid of Greece
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Lend-Lease Act signed by Roosevelt
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German Army hastily invades Yugoslavia and Greece
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Yugoslavia capitulates to Nazis
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Greece capitulates to Nazis
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British counter-attack in Egypt
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British Army invades Lebanon and Syria
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Hitler's operation...
Hitler launches operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union -
Germans capture Soviet city of Minsk
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Stalin launches "scorched earth" policy
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German siege of Soviet city of Leningrad begins
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Jews order to wear yellow Star of David
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Germans capture Soviet city of Kiev
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German SS mass murders Russian Jews at Kiev
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Germans capture Soviet city of Odessa
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Germans capture Soviet city of Kharkov
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German Army occupies the Crimea
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Germans capture the Soviet city of Rostov
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Red Army retakes Rostov
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Red Army launches major counter-offensive
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Japanese attack naval base at Pearl Harbor
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Rossevelt give speech...
Roosevelt gives "Day of Infamy" speech; United States and Britain declare war on Japan -
Germany declares war on the United States
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Mass gassing of Jews begins at Auschwitz
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Japanese descent...
American citizens of Japanese descent forced into "relocation centers" -
German U-boats...
German U-boats begin sinking ships off American coast in "Operation Drumbeat -
Royal Air Force...
Royal Air Force launches first 1,000 bomber raid on Cologne, German -
Turning point in the Pacific...
Japanese Navy resoundingly defeated at Battle of Midway--war reaches its turning point in the Pacific; S.S. Leader Rheinhardt Heydrich dies of wounds sustained in partisan attack at Prague -
Sevastopol falls to German Army
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Nazi conquest of Crimea achieved
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German Army begins push towards Stalingrad
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German attack on Stalingrad begins
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Allied invasion of North Africa begins in "Operation Torch"
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Axis forces occupy Vichy France
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Soviet forces encircle German Sixth Army at Stalingrad
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German and British ships...
German and British ships engage in the Battle of the Barents Sea -
German Army retreats from Caucasus
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Red Army begins siege of German-occupied Stalingrad
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1/14-23 Surrender demand...
Roosevelt and Churchill meet at Casablanca, issue unconditional surrender demand -
British forces take Tripoli
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Turning point in Europe
German Sixth Army at Stalingrad surrenders to the Russians; war in Europe reaches its turning point -
Red Army takes Kursk
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2/14-25 Battle of Kasserine Pass...
Battle of Kasserine Pass fought in North Africa between German and U.S. forces -
Red Army retakes Kharkov
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Germany Army recaptures Kharkov
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3/16-20 German Submarines...
German submarines achieve their largest tonnage total of the war -
Allies capture Tunisia
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remaining Axis troops in North Africa surrender to Allies
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RAF targets German industry in the Ruhr
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U-boat operations...
U-boat operations suspended in the North Atlantic due to steep losses -
Largest tank battle in history begins at Kursk
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7/9-10 Allied forces land on Sicily
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Mussolini and the Fascists overthrown
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Allied bombing raid...
Allied bombing raid creates firestorm in Hamburg, Germany -
Red Army retakes Karkhov
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New Italian government announces Italy's surrender
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Red Army recaptures Kiev
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"Big Three"...
"Big Three" of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill meet at Tehran -
12/24-26 Soviets begin large offensive in Ukraine
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Red Army advances into Poland
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German lines on Eastern Front collapse; full retreat begins
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Allied forces land at Anzio, Italy
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Red Army breaks 900-day siege of Leningrad
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American forces invade Kwajalein
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German 14th Army counter-attacks at Anzio
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2/18-22 American forces take Eniwetok
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Soviet troops recapture Sevastopol
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German forces in the Crimea surrender
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Allied forces enter Rome
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D-Day...
D-Day: invasion of Europe begins with Allied landings at Normandy -
Germans begin launching V-1 rockets against London
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American marines invade Saipan
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Red Army begins massive summer offensive
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American forces liberate Cherbourg
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Soviet forces recapture Minsk
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Allied troops liberate Caen
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Hitler survives assassination attempt
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Soviet forces liberate concentration camp at Majdanek
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7/25-30"Operation Cobra"...
Allied forces break-out of Normandy encirclement in "Operation Cobra" -
Red Army recaptures Brest-Litovsk
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Soviet forces invade Romania
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Paris liberated
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Brussels liberated
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Antwerp liberated
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American troops reach the Siegfried Line in western Germany
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Nazis crush revolt...
Nazis brutally crush revolt in Warsaw; Allies advance into Germany -
Roosevelt elected to fourth term
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"Battle of the Bulge"...
German Army launches "Battle of the Bulge" offensive on the Western Front -
"Malmedy Massacre"...
Waffen SS executes 81 American prisoners of war in "Malmedy Massacre" -
Battle of the Bulge ends in German defeat
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Hungary signs armistice with Allies
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Allied incendiary raid creates firestorm in Dresden
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Tokyo firebombed
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American troops encircle German forces in the Ruhr
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Harry Truman...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies of stroke; Harry Truman becomes President; Allies liberate Belsen and Buchenwald concentration camps -
Adolf Hitler and wife...
Adolf Hitler and wife Eva Braun commit suicide in Chancellery bunker -
Unconditional surrender of all German forces
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Victory in Europe (VE) Day
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Allies divide Germany into occupation zones
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First atomic bomb...
First U.S. atomic bomb tested at Los Alamos, New Mexico; Potsdam Conference begins -
First atomic bomb dropped Hiroshima
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War on Japan
Soviet Union declares war on Japan; Soviet forces invade Manchuria -
Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
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Unconditional surrender of Japanese forces
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Victory over Japan (VJ) Day
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Japanese delegation...
Japanese delegation signs instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay -
United Nations meets for first time in London
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Hermann Goering...
Hermann Goering commits suicide; 11 other war criminals hanged
