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Holocaust
President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. Germany surrenders to soviets -
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Holocaust / WWII
Boycott of jewish owned business in Germany. Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service. -
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Austria
Germany incorporates Austria in the Union -
World War II
On September 1st, 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland , This started World War II -
Declares War
Canada, Under the leadership of Mackenzie King , declares war on Germany -
Final Solution
Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews -
Adolf Hitler
Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem. Last Polish army is defeated in World War II. -
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Blitzkrieg
Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg (lightning war) to take over parts of western Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France. -
Axis Powers
Italian Dictator Mussolini of Italy decides to enter the war as a member of the Axis Powers. -
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World war 2 in Eastern Europe
Until the winter of 1942-1943, the German army was victorious in an almost unbroken chain of battlefield successes. Europe lay under German domination. -
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Battle Of Midway
On this day in 1942, the Battle of Midway–one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II–begins. -
Invade
The Allies invade and take the island of Sicily. -
North African Theatre
British and U.S. armies attack Germany's Africa Korps on the Mediterranean chasing forces back toward Libya. -
Churchill and Roosevelt Plan
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt meet in Casablanca in North Africa to plan attacks on all fronts, to invade Sicily and Italy, to send forces to the Pacific, and to better aid the Soviet Union. -
Russians Trap Germany
The Russian Red Army traps and captures German armies that had invaded the Soviet Union. -
Allies Assemble
In England, the Allied powers assemble 2.9 million men, 2.5 million tons of supplies, 11,000 airplanes, and hundreds of ships in preparation for D-Day. -
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Normandy
Six hundred warships and 11,000 planes, 176,000 men in the first attack wave carried on 4000 landing craft. -
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Battle of the Bulge
These last ditch German offensives took a deadly toll. At the Battle of the Bulge, the Allies suffered close to 70,000 casualties, most of them American. -
FDR
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. -
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Battle of Berlin
Soviet forces launched a massive final offensive toward Berlin in mid-April 1945 -
Mussolini
Italian insurgents capture Mussolini, murder him, and mutilate his body. -
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Berlin
As Soviet forces neared his command bunker in central Berlin on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. Within days, Berlin fell to the Soviets -
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Suicide & Surrender
Adolf Hitler commits suicide , Germany army signs unconditional surrender -
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Victory
The German armed forces surrendered unconditionally in the west on May 7 and in the east on May 9, 1945. May 8, 1945, was announced Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day). -
World War II Ends
7 years of war finally ends
