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Germany invades Poland. World War II begins.
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Germany begins deportation of Austrian and Czech Jews to Poland.
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Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star.
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Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway.
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Concentration camp established at Auschwitz.
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Concentration camp established at Auschwitz.
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4,000 Jews massacred at Babi Yar outside Kiev
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The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US entered World War II on the side of the Allies.
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United States declares war on Japan and Germany.
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Extermination begins in Belzec; by the end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered.
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Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor killing center; by October 1943, 250,000 Jews murdered.
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Warsaw Ghetto revolt begins as Germans attempt to liquidate 70,000 inhabitants; Jewish underground fights Nazis until early June.
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Italy surrendered to the Allies, however Germany helped Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy.
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Armed revolt in Sobibor extermination camp.
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Germany occupies Hungary.
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D-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy.
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Revolt by inmates at Auschwitz; one crematorium blown up.
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Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria.
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The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. They lose to the Allies, sealing the fate of the German army.
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US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. He is succeeded by President Harry Truman.
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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. World War 2 has ended.