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Non-aggression pact signed by the Soviet Union and Germany in 1939. It allowed for Hitler to invade western Poland and Stalin to take eastern Poland without the two sides fighting a war.
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Germany Invades Poland Germany invades Poland. This offically starts world war 2.
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Britian headlineBritain and France declare war on Germany.
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German style of attack meaning 'lightning war'. The quick attacks helped to overrun Poland, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France in a matter of months.
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Italy joins warItaly see.s France is weakend and they declare war on them. Italy also declared war on Britain
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FlagFrance has been hit hard by the war so they surrendered to the axis powers.
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Significant German air attack against England, particularly the city of London, resulting in tens of thousands of British deaths.
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TojoJapan joins the axis powers.
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flag Germany invades on Russia. Hitler orders maximum cruelty to any Russian civilians , this causes a Russian resistance
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German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.
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Pearl HarborJapan attacks US base peal harbor. US joins war day after.
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1942 Nazi meeting that settled the "Jewish question" by making genocide official German policy.
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1945 American bombing of Tokyo, culminating in the firebombing on March 9-10 that killed over 80,000 Japanese civilians.
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Most significant battle in the Soviet Union, where German forces surrounded the city and bombarded the city. The Russians withstood the attack and eventually pushed the Germans back.
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1943 Allied bombing run that included the German city of Hamburg and destroyed most of the people and killed tens of thousands of German citizens.
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MussoliniMussolni is replaced and arrested.
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flag Italy surrenders. The German forces in northern and central Italy occupy it
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D dayUS, British, and Candian forces invade Germany. Turning point for the war.
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The last German offensive of WWII, resulting in the retreat of German forces toward Germany
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Allied bombing run over the German city of Dresden that killed over 60,000 civilians.
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hitlerHitler commited suicide in his bunker in Berlin. He appoints Admiral Doenitz as his successor.
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the Allied victory in Europe
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hiroshimaHiroshima got destroyed by the atomic bomb by US.
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bombNagasaki got hit with an atomic bomb by the US.
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GO USAJapan surrenders ending the war with VJ Day.
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Japan surrenders
