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October 1935 - May 1936
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November 1, 1936 - the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced
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Honoring their alliances with Poland, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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Polish government flees into exile via Romania and Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.
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The Soviet Union invades Finland and initiates the WInter War. They take the northern shores of Lake Lagoda and the small Finnish coastline on the Arctic Sea from the FInns.
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Luxembourg is taken, the Netherlands and Belgium surrender, and France signs and armistice with Germany granting them the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline.
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Invade southern France on June 21, 1940.
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air war
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Hungary: November 20
Romania: November 22
Slovakia: November 23 -
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June 22, 1941 - November 1941: Germany and its Axis partners (except Bulgaria) quickly overrun the Baltic States, Leningrad, Smolensk, Kiev, and Rostov. A Soviet counteroffensive drives the Germans out of Moscow on December 6, 1941.
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The U.S. declares war on Japan and enters World War II. By April 1942, Japan was in control of the Phillipines, Indochina, and Singapore.
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American troops stop Japanese island-hopping advances towards Australia at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
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Axis forces in Tunisia surrender to the Allies and the North African Campaign comes to an end.
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The Fascist Grand Council deposes Mussolini which allows the Italian marshall Pietro Badoglio to form a new government. The Badoglio government surrenders to the Allies on September 8 and the Germans seize control of Rome and northern Italy. Mussolini is freed from imprisonment by German commandos on September 12.
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British and U.S. troops open a second front against the Germans on Normandy beaches.
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Soviet troops on the Prut river enduces Romanian opposition for overthrowing the Antonescu regime. An armistice is signed by the new government and Romania immidiately switches sides in the war. Bulgaria then surrenders on September 8 and the Germans evacuate Greece, Albania, and southern Yugoslavia by October.
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An armistace is signed with the Soviet Union and Finland leaves the Axis partnership.
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The Germans launch a final offensive in the west to re-conquor Belgium and split Allied forces along the German boarder. The Germans were in retreat by January 1, 1945.
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They encircle Berlin.
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To the western Allies on May 7 and the Soviet on May 9.
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The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan's Hiroshima.
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And they invade Manchuria.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Japan's Nagasaki.
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Japan agrees to unconditionally surrender on August 14 and they formally do in September, ending World War II.
