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Japan invades Manchuria
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Germany and Italy sign a treaty of cooperation
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Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact
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Japan invades China
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement
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France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement
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Germany invades Poland
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Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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Axis forces in Tunisia surrender to the Allies, ending the North African campaign.
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Soviet troops liberate Kiev
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US troops land in the Philippines.
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The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin
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Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.
