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President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler the leader, or führer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party)
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Anschluss, meaning annexation, was the annexation of Austria into Germany
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Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville CHamberlain, sign the Munich Pact, allowing Czechoslovakia to be annexed by Germany
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Translated to "Night of the Broken Glass". From November 9-10, 1938, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses, and also killed close to 100 Jewish people.
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Hitler invades Poland, and two day later, France and Britain declare war on Germany.
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After Paris falls in the German invasion, France surrenders to Germany.
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Also known as the Berlin Pact, this was an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan, and the Axis Powers are formed
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Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe, tries and fails to attack Great Britain, which was defended by the Royal Air Force
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Adolf Hitler launched his army in an invasion of the Soviet Union. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, which is a distance of two thousand miles.
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Japan brings the United States into the war by bombing the American naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii
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On this day, President Franklin Roosevelt declares war on Japan for attacking Pearl Harbor
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The plans for the Holocaust, a mass genocide of people of the jewish religion, and others, had just started. Few people survived
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This four-day battle between the Americans and the Japanese. The Japanese were seeking control of the Coral Sea with the invasion of New Guinea, but came under attack of the American aircraft carrier planes.
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Allied Powers cross English Channel and landed on beaches of Normandy
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From August 19th to the 25th, Paris is being liberated from Nazi Germany by the French 2nd Armored Division and the United States 4th Infantry Division
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Hitler launches the last Nazi offensive, which was an attempt to push the Allied front line west from France to Northwestern Belgium.
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American forces invade Iwo Jima, an island off the coast of Japan, defended by about 23,000 Japanese, and attacked by 3 american marine divisions
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287,000 American troops attack the island of Okinawa, which was defended by 130,000 Japanese troops
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, and Vice President Harry S. Truman takes over.
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Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers
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An American B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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An American B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
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The Soviet Union declares war on Japan, and invades Manchuria
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Japan finally surrenders aboard the USS Missouri, marking the end of World War II
