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Hitler and other European leader meet in Munich and agree that Hitler should take Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia
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Hitler and Stalin both signed a pact that also included secret info about the invasion and division of Poland
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Germany invaded Poland, officially starting World War 2
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The two countries declare war on Hitler and his army
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Hitler launched an attack on Britain, which consisted mostly of bombing attacks on cities, which destroyed British morale
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Hitler launched his Blitzkrieg (lightning war) against Holland and Belgium, and both countries became occupied.
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Italy entered the war, fighting for the axis powers
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Hitler betrayed the pact that he had signed with Stalin and sent troops and tanks into Russian territory, which took them buy surprise.
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The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor as a preliminary action before taking other European owned Southeast Asian countries. The US and Britain subsequently declared war on Japan the next day
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British general Bernard Law Montgomery attacked the German-Italian army in North Africa, leading a 1500 chase across the desert.
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British and American troops landed in Africa, took control of French Morocco and Algeria, and gradually closed in on the Germans, eventually defeating the Axis powers in North Africa.
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With the Allies having taken Sicily one month earlier, Prime minister of Italy Benito Mussolini was kicked out of office, and the new government of Italy surrendered.
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The Allied leaders met in Tehran to discuss plans to invade Germany as well as post war plans
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The allied forces launched their invasion of western France, sending thousands of troops onto the beaches of Normandy to establish a beachfront.
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The allies reached the capital of France, liberating the country from the Axis powers
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Germany launched it's last defense against the Allies in Belgium, but were ultimately pushed back by allied forces
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Allied forces crossed the Rhine, with Russian forces pushing in from the east, closing Germany into a hole
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In his bomb proof shelter, Adolf Hitler, along with his wife Ava Braun commit suicide
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with the death of their leader, German forces were forced to surrender to Allied troops
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After refusing to surrender, the United States dropped 2 atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The Japanese surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, ending World War 2
