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World War II

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  • Mussolini Joins Hitler

    Mussolini Joins Hitler

    Benito Mussolini (fascist leader of Italy) joins forces with Adolf Hitler.
  • Germany signs Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

    Germany signs Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

    Germany signed the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact with the soviets.
  • Germany Attacks Poland

    Germany Attacks Poland

  • Britain and France Declare War on Germany

    Britain and France Declare War on Germany

  • Germany Attacks Denmark and Norway

    Germany Attacks Denmark and Norway

  • Roosevelt increases defense spending

    Roosevelt increases defense spending

    President Roosevelt increases defense spending to the highest it has ever been before.
  • Roosevelt aids Britain

    Roosevelt aids Britain

    Roosevelt makes a deal to give Great Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for various naval bases.
  • President Rosevelt's State of Union address

    President Rosevelt's State of Union address

    Roosevelt stresses to congress the danger that aggressive fascists powers present to the U.S.
  • Germany attacks the Soviet Union

    Germany attacks the Soviet Union

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

  • U.S. at war

    U.S. at war

  • Japanese and U.S. aircraft carriers engage in battle

    Japanese and U.S. aircraft carriers engage in battle

  • German occupation of Southern France

    German occupation of Southern France

  • Italian gov't officially surrenders to the Allied powers

    Italian gov't officially surrenders to the Allied powers

  • Death of Adolf Hitler

    Death of Adolf Hitler

  • V-E Day

    V-E Day

  • First Atomic Bomb tested

    First Atomic Bomb tested

    US tests first atomic bomb in the desert of New Mexico.
  • US drops bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

    US drops bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

  • US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan

    US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan

  • Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II

    Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II