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Hitler makes powerful speech describing the German people and the German Reich.
He shouts out "traitor", "poison", and "blood".
Takes full responsibility for murders from two weeks previously. -
Spanish army general, Francisco Franco, attempts to overthrow spanish government.
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Germany signs nonaggression pact with Soviet Union.
Pledged that neither would attack the other. -
Hitler's tanks rumble across the border into Poland at dawn, while his Luftwaffe bombed cities.
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German tanks stormed across French border from Belgium, sweepign around the Maginot Line, attacking French positions from behind.
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General Eisenhower directed largest combined land-sea-air invasion in history.
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German troops in Europe finally lay down their arms.
US and GB celebrate their victory. -
-Atomis bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
-Killed 100,000; another 100,000 died later from burns, radiation, and wounds.
-Bomb destroyed more than 4 square miles of the city. -
Japan signs the Document of Surrender in Tokyo bay.
