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Germany and USSR Sign Non-Aggression Pact
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Invasion of Polnd
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Britain and France Declair War on Germany
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Hitler Declares Victory Over Poland and Calls for Peace with Britain and France
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Germany U-Boat Sinks HMS Royal Oak at Anchor in Scapa Flow
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Assassination on Hitler Fails
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Rationings of Butter, Sugar, and Bacon Begins in Britain
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Finland Signs Peace Treaty with Soviet Union
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Holland Surrenders to Germany
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German Army Enters Paris
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Battle of Britain Begins
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Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Act.
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The first gassings of prisoners occurs at Auschwitz.
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Germans forces take Kiev, along with 600,000 Soviet prisoners
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Japanese naval and air forces attack U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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U.S. declares war on Japan; Britain and dominions declare war on Japan.
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Mass deportations of Jews from Western Europe begins to extermination camps in Poland.
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Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066, authorizing the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans
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"Bataan Death March" begins.
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18 James Doolittle leads first U.S. bombing attack on Japan off aircraft carrier USS Hornet.
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4-8 Battle of the Coral Sea
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Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz extermination camp.
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Anne Frank and family go into hiding in a secret annex above Otto Frank's factory in Amsterdam.
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Treblinka death camp opened in Poland; first deportations of Jews from Warsaw Ghetto to death camps.
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Col. Leslie Groves is assigned command of the Manhattan Project.
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Anthony Eden reports on mass executions of Jews by Nazis in the House of Commons.
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Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin uprising.
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Jewish resistance in Warsaw Ghetto ends.
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Himmler orders destruction of all Jewish ghettos in Poland.
