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September 1, 1939
World War II starts; Hitler invades Poland. -
May 10, 1940-June 22, 1940
Germany attacks Western Europe -
May 30, 1940
Winston Churchill becomes leader of British Government. -
June 10, 1940
Italy enters the war; joins Axis powers -
July 10, 1940- October 31, 1940
Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany -
September 22, 1940
Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact, creating the Axis Alliance -
June 22, 1941
Nazi Germany and Axis partners invade Soviet Union -
December 7, 1941
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor -
December 8, 1941
United States declare war. -
December 11, 1941
Nazi Germany declares war on the US -
May 10- June 22 1940
Germany use blitzkrieg to take over most of western Europe -
June 10, 1942
Allies invade and take the island of Sicily -
February 19, 1945
US Marines invade the island Iwo Jima and capture it. -
June 6, 1944
D-Day occurs;- British and US troops land on Normandy beaches of France -
February 4, 1945- February 11, 1945
Yalta Conference; Stalin, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt discuss Europe postwar reorganization -
April 30, 1945
Hitler commits suicide. -
August 6-9, 1945
United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
June 4, 1942
US Navy defeats Japanese navy at Battle of Midday -
April 12, 1945
President Roosevelt dies -
May 7, 1945
Germany surrenders to the Allies -
August 1945
Soviet Union declares war on Japan -
September 3, 1943
Italy surrenders to Allies, but Germany helps Mussolini escape and start a government in Northern Italy. -
September 2, 1945
Japan surrenders, end of World War 2. -
Septer 3, 1939
France and Great Britain declare war on Germany. -
December 16, 1944
Germans release an attack in the Battle of the Bulge, lose to the Allies.
