WW2 (mack)

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Sep 1, 1939

Children had to evacuate due to the bombing by Germany.

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Sep 3, 1939

Britain and France declare war on Germany.

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Jan 18, 1940

Rationing begins in Britain.

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Mar 12, 1940

Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.

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Mar 16, 1940

Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.

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Jun 22, 1940

France surrenders to Germany.

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Jan 14, 1941

First units of German'Africa Korps arrive in North Africa

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Jan 22, 1941

Tobruk in north Africa falls to the British and Australians.

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Feb 11, 1941

British forces advance into Italian Somaliland in the east

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Feb 12, 1941

German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli,North Africa

medical technology

1942

Penicillin was not invented during the war, but it was first mass produced during the war

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May 30, 1942

First thousand-bomber British air raid (against Cologne).

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Jul 1, 1942

First Battle of El Alamein.

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Jan 27, 1943

First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven).

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Mar 16, 1943

Battle of Atlantic climaxes with 27 merchant ships sunk by German U-boats.

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Jan 17, 1944

• First attack toward Cassino, Italy.

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Mar 4, 1944

Soviet troops begin an offensive on the Belorussian front; First major daylight bombing raid on Berlin by the Allies.

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1945

Hitler wanted to make Germany the most powerful empire in the world.

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Jan 17, 1945

Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland.

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Feb 13, 1945

Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids.

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Oct 16, 1946

Hermann Göring commits suicide two hours before his scheduled execution.