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Timeline of World War II
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Britain And France Declare War On Germany
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The US remains neutral but president Roosevelt declares "limited national emergency".
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Russia invades Poland
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Germany invades France, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg. Winston Churchill becomes Britain's prime minister.
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The evacuation at Dunkirk ends. 338,000 troops were rescued. Churchill declares that Britain will never surrender.
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The Battle of Britain air campaign begins
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Japan joins The Axis
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Stalin orders the "scorched earth" strategy.
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The long German siege of Leningrad begins.
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The Japanese Navy attacks Pearl Harbor and the Phillipines, and the US joins the war.
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Germany and Italy declare war on the US.
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Battle of the Coral Sea. One Japanese carrier and one American carrier are sunk
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he battle of Midway. Four Japanese carriers are sunk, and one American carrier. Japan's naval superiority is lost.
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The last German forces in Stalingrad surrender
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D-Day. American, British, Canadian forces invade France at the beaches of Normandy
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Operation Market Garden in Holland
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The German attack in the Ardennes begin
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The Russians liberate the Auschwitz death camp
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he Marines land in Iwo Jima
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Mussolini is executed by the Italian resistance. The Allies liberate the Dachau death camp
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Germany surrenders. The war in Europe ends
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Hiroshima is destroyed by an atomic bomb
