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Storm Troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues
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Joseph Stalin, soviet dictator, signed a 10 year pact with Hitler after being excluded from the Munich Conference
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Germany sropped bombs on Warsaw (the capital) and unleashed WWII
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Allies escaped to beaches of Dunkirk to try to get away from the Germans
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Germany invaded France successfully
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Htiler decdied to call off his hattacks because he was turned by British resistance
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Declaration that upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own goverment
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The Japanese attacked the U.S. fleet in Hawaii
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Allies turn back Japanese fleet
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Japanese attacked Midway Island but American forces destroyed Japanese, “the Americans had avenged Pearl Harbor”
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Luftwaffe went on nightly bombing raids. Germans eventually surrendered to Soviets.
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Allies force- mostly Americans- landed in Morocco and Algeria. Desert Fox’s Afrika Korps was finally smashed.
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British, American, French, and Canadian troops attacked Germans on a 60-mile stretch of beach in Normandy.
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Germans surprised attecked Allies but Germans failed.
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American Marines took Iwa Jima and the bloodiest land battle of the war took place. Japanese put up a desperate fight before being defeated.
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Victory in Europe day. The wae had ended in Europe. General Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich from the Germany military.
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Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima after President Truman warned the Japanese unless they surrendered, they would expect a "rain of ruin" from the air.
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A second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, 3 days after Hiroshima.
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Japanese surrendered and the war ended
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Allies put Nazi war criminals on trial to make sure Holocaust crimes would never happen again.
