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World War II starts; Hitler invades Poland.
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Germany attacks Western Europe
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Winston Churchill becomes leader of British Government.
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Italy enters the war; joins Axis powers
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Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact, creating the Axis Alliance
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Nazi Germany and Axis partners invade Soviet Union
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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United States declare war.
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Nazi Germany declares war on the US
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Germany use blitzkrieg to take over most of western Europe
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Allies invade and take the island of Sicily
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US Marines invade the island Iwo Jima and capture it.
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D-Day occurs;- British and US troops land on Normandy beaches of France
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Yalta Conference; Stalin, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt discuss Europe postwar reorganization
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Hitler commits suicide.
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United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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US Navy defeats Japanese navy at Battle of Midday
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President Roosevelt dies
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Germany surrenders to the Allies
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Soviet Union declares war on Japan
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Italy surrenders to Allies, but Germany helps Mussolini escape and start a government in Northern Italy.
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Japan surrenders, end of World War 2.
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France and Great Britain declare war on Germany.
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Germans release an attack in the Battle of the Bulge, lose to the Allies.
