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Spanish Civil war ends
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Nazis invade Poland.
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British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy
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Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
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Belgium surrenders to the Nazis
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First British air raid on Berlin
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United States military conscription bill passed
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Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president
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Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia
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First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz
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Soviet Army launches a major counter-offensive around Moscow
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor;Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree.
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Hitler takes complete control of the German Army
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Germans take Sevastopol.
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First all-American air attack in Europe
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Rommel withdraws from El Agheila
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Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships.
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Montgomery's Eighth Army takes Tripoli.
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First bombing raid by Americans on Germany
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Waffen-SS attacks Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto
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Allies take Tunisia.
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Allies enter Naples, Italy
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Soviets launch offensives on the Ukrainian front
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Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome
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D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.
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Soviet troops occupy Estonia
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French capture Strasbourg
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Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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V-E (Victory in Europe) Day
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Japanese sign the surrender agreement
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United Nations is born
