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Japan's invasion in China initiates WWII in the Pacific. This followed the September 18, 1936 Japanese invasion into Manchuria.
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Germany and the Soviet forces worked together to invade and split up the Polish country.
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The Battle of Britain was an air campaign by German foces in an attempt to take Britain.
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Japanese forces commenced bombing on US naval base Pearl Harbor at 8am. This pushed the United States to join the war.
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Allied powers landed on the beaches of Normandy, France. Begining the liberation of France
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Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi German forces, commited suicide, along with his wife, marking the end of the war.
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Announcment of the victory over Japan. President Truman anounced for September 2 to be the official VJ Day
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Following extensive conflitcts in the last century, including both World Wars, the initial charter was signed with 50 nations, Poland followed shortly afterwards and was recognized as one of the original 51 members
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Truman insisted that if Greece and Turkey didn't get the support they needed, they would fall to communism
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alliance between the Soviet Union and
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About the size of a beach ball, Sputnik 1 was the world's first satalite to be launched into space. The craft weighed 193.9 pounds and took 98 minutes to ellipticate the earth.
