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International sporting event held in Nazi Germany. Racist policies caused other countries to consider boycotting the games.
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Hitler marched into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country.
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Hitler and Stalin signed a non-aggression pact which included secret clauses for the division of Poland.
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Allied powers Vs. Central Powers
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Britain and France declared war on Germany.
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German and British air forces clashed in the skies over Great Britain.
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The Japanese attacked the US pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as a preliminary to taking British, French and Dutch colonies in South East Asia
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The US and Britain declare war on Japan after Pearl Harbor
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Germany and axis powers fight the soviet union by going thru Stalingrad, very devastating & Bloody.
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Germany launched final defense to reclaim Belgium.
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Although Italy had surrendered in September, it was only now that the allies were able to liberate Rome from the Germans.
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Allied forces landed beaches of Normandy, France. Attack allows 2nd force to attack from the other side.
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The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Nagasaki as the Japanese had not surrendered following Hiroshima.
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The French capital of Paris was liberated from the Germans.
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Roosevelt dies and is succeeded by Truman
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Hitler committed suicide in his bomb proof shelter with his Mistress
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German forces surrender to Montgomery on Luneburg Heath. Admiral Donitz, whom Hitler had nominated as his successor
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Victory in Europe was celebrated.
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The Japanese generals refused to surrender. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Hiroshima.
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Russia declared war on Japan and invaded Japanese-ruled Manchuria.
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The Japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allies ending the second world war.
