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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. His Nazi Party, or the Third Reich, takes power and Hitler is essentially the dictator of Germany
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Germany invades Poland
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France and Great Britain declared war on Germany
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite pact
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The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
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The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway.
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D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the war.
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Germany surrenders to the Allies.
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The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The city is devastated
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Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies
