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President Franklin D. Roosevelt forbids U.S. ships from carrying arms to China or Japan.
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German Chancellor Adolf Hitler announces support for Japan.
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany.
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Passenger ship St. Louis, containing 907 Jewish refugees, begins its journey back to Europe after the United States refuses to grant it permission to dock.
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Germany invads poland
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Britain and France declared war on Germany. Neville Chamberlain broadcast the announcement that the country was at war.
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from the east.
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Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21.
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Japan bombed pearl harbor
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his State of the Union address in which he proposes a massive government spending budget, the largest in American history.
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The Bataan Death March was a 70-mile forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by Japanese forces during World War II
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The British and American forces managed to defeat the Axis forces in North Africa
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D- Day invasion of normandy
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The French capital of Paris was liberated from the Germans.
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The first V2 flying bombs killed three people in London.
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German forces surrender German forces in north west Germany, Holland and Denmark surrendered to Montgomery on Luneburg Heath. Admiral Donitz, whom Hitler had nominated as his successor, tried to reach agreement to surrender to the Western allies but to continue to fight the Russians. His request was refused.
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end of the war in Europe
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Japan surrenderd, effectively ending in WW2
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the war is finally over
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In 1945, the Japanese commander in charge of Bataan, General Homma, was put on trial for atrocities including the Bataan Death March. He stated that he had been unaware of the high death toll from the march until some time later. Nonetheless, he was convicted. General Homma was executed in the Philippines on April 3, 1946.
