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Germany invades Poland.
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Japanese planes attacked the U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii.This event led to the U.S. involvement in WW2.
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United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major and decisive battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad.The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943.
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The Allies attacked the beaches of Normandy, north of France
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Benito Mussolini and his wife are hang.
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot.
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The first atomic bomb was drop on the city of Hiroshima.
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Three days after the drop of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the Empire of Japan refused to surrender. A second bomb was drop on Nagasaki.
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On 15 August 1945 Japan surrendered, with the surrender documents finally signed aboard the deck of the American battleship USS Missouri on 2 September 1945, ending the war.
