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Germany invades Poland which cause a start to World War II
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Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia agree to divide Poland
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Finland signs and peace treaty with the Soviets
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German bombs Paris; Evacuation at Dunkirk ends
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Hitler and Mussolini meet for the first time in Munich
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France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany
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Germans start an air raid over London
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Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev
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Hitler takes total control of Germany's army
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A mass murder of Jews by gassing begins in Auschwitz
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Stalin and Churchill meet for the first time in Moscow, Russia
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in their first big defeat with Hitler as leader
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SS attack Jewish resistance in Warsaw ghetto
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Mussolini is arrested and Italian fascist government falls; Marshall Pietro Badoglio takes over
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Italian troops announce their surrender to the Allies
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Germans rescued Mussolini and recreates a Fascist government
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Notorious day that marks the invasion of France and ultimately the deciding factor for the end of the war
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Resistance fighters come out of hiding and attack German forces http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/paris-liberated
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta to discuss the future of the war and the postwar world https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/yalta-conf
