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The Nazis invade poland
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Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
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Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
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Hungary joins the Axis Powers.
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Nazis invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
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Germany attacks Soviet Union.
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The United States and Britain declare war on Japan because of Pearl Harbor being bombed.
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Mass murder of Jewish people by gassing begins at the Auchwitz concentration camp.
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Battle of Stalingrad begins
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Professor Enrico Fermi sets up an atomic reactor in Chicago.
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Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans at Stalingrad
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The Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto ends.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet at Tehran.
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D-Day landings on the Northern coast of France.
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Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
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Soviet troops recapture Warsaw, Poland.
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Adolf HItler commits suicide.
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V-E (Victory in Europe) Day!