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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. Germany surrenders to soviets
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Boycott of jewish owned business in Germany. Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service.
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Germany incorporates Austria in the Union
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On September 1st, 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland , This started World War II
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Canada, Under the leadership of Mackenzie King , declares war on Germany
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Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews
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Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem. Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
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Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg (lightning war) to take over parts of western Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France.
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Italian Dictator Mussolini of Italy decides to enter the war as a member of the Axis Powers.
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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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On this day in 1942, the Battle of Midway–one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II–begins.
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The Allies invade and take the island of Sicily.
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British and U.S. armies attack Germany's Africa Korps on the Mediterranean chasing forces back toward Libya.
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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.
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The Russian Red Army traps and captures German armies that had invaded the Soviet Union.
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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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Six hundred warships and 11,000 planes, 176,000 men in the first attack wave carried on 4000 landing craft.
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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.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia.
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Soviet forces launched a massive final offensive toward Berlin in mid-April 1945
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Italian insurgents capture Mussolini, murder him, and mutilate his body.
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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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Adolf Hitler commits suicide , Germany army signs unconditional surrender
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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).
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7 years of war finally ends
