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Germany Invades Poland
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Period: to
World War II
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Britan and france declare war on Germany
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Poland surrenders to Germany
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Germany Invades Norway and Denmark
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Allied troops land in Norway
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Britan takes control of Iceland
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Italy declares war on France and England
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United States starts to help supply Britan
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Hitler creates Afrika corps
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First German troops leave for North Africa
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The US Congress passes the Lend-Lease Bill
This will provide billions of dollars to allies -
US troops arrive in Icland
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Stalin appoints himself commander-in-chief of the Russian army
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General Hideki Tojo becomes Prime Minister of Japan
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Japan launches suprise attack on Pearl Harbor
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United States declares war on Japan
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Germany and Italy declare war on United states
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Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo
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United States Marines land on Guadalcanal
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Allied forces land in North Africa
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American 8th Air Force conducts its first raid against Germany
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Germans give up North Africa
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Italy surrenders to the Allies
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D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy, France
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Germans surrender Paris
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U. S. Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin; Karl Dönitz appointed leader of Germany
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
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Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan
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Japanese surrender; World War II ends
