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Japan invades Manchuria
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Nazi Germany and facist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation.
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Japan invades China iniation WW2 in the pacific
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Germany and the soviet Union signes a nonaggression agreement.
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germany invades poland, initiating ww2 in Europe.
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Elie Wiesel and his family become residents of Hungary.
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Italy enters the war. italy invades southern france on june 21
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bulgaria joins the axis.
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Twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel begins studying the Kabbalah.
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japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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U.S. declares war on Japan entering ww2.
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Germany and its axis partners declare war on the US
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US and british troops in sicily
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Elie and the others are moved into ghetos
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harder punishments are being placed upon the Jews
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Elie Wiesel is fifteen years old when he and his family are deported in May 1944 by the Hungarian gendarmerie and the German SS and police from Sighet to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perish; his two older sisters survive.
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Elie and his father are sent to Auschwitz
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us troops land in the philippines
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SS units evacuate Auschwitz in January. Elie and his father are transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar Germany. Elie's father dies in January; Elie is liberated with the arrival of US troops in April.
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the soviets launch their final offensive, encircling berlin.
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Hitler commits suicide
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germany surrenders to allies
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US drops an atomic bomb on hiroshima