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Mao Zedong leads the comunists on a very long journey to flee from the nationalists and in this attempt the comunists win the battle between the two groups
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In response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.
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December 7, 1941 hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The attack was very quick but it was devastating.
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General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France.
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The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city of Hiroshima and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. The bomb on Nagasaki killed an estimated 40,000 people.
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This began one of the most powerful orginizations in the world.