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Hitler was appointed as German leader -
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World War II begins -
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Germans invade Poland -
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Warsaw captured -
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Norway invaded by the Germans -
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Germans launch an air attack on Great Britain. These attacks lasted were known as the Battle of Britain and lasted from July 10, 1940 to the end of October 1940 -
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U.S. plunged into the war when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor -
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The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway. -
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Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans. This was known as D-Day -
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The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. They lose to the Allies sealing the fate of the German army. -
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US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. He is succeeded by President Harry Truman. -
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Adolf Hitler dies -
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Germans surrenders to Allies -
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U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan -
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U.S. drops the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan -
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Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies.