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Japan invades Manchuria
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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of germany
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kristallnacht riots across germany
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germant invades poland, WW 2 begins
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US congress passes first peacetime draft
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lend-lease act passed
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japanese attack on pearl harbor
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FDR signs executive order 9066 which will lead to americans being interment camps
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office of price adminitstraion issues ration book one
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american naval defeat the japense navy at the battle of midway
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operation torch, the allied invasion of north africa begins
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rosie the riviter appears of the cover of the saturday evening post as a tribute to working women during the war
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the tuskegee airmen undertake their first combat mission
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D day: allied forces come ashore in normany, france
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japanese navy defeated at Leyete gulf, first use first use of kamikazis by japan
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battle of the bulge, the last german offensive, begins in a frigid northern european winter
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soviet troops liberate aushwitz concentrantion camp
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winston churchill, franklin rosevelt, and joseph stalin met at yalta to discuss post euro war
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marines raise US flag on Mt. siribachi during the battle for iwo jima
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american forces meet up with their russian allies at the elbe river in germany
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victory in europe day
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the US drops atomic bombs on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki
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japan signs the surender agreement, ofically ending world war 2
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nurember war crimes trials of nazi soldiers begin
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WAACs created
