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Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party
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Archives Receives Original Nazi Documents That “Legalized” Persecution of Jews
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German Annexation of Austria
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a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung paramilitary forces along with civilians throughout Nazi Germany
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German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air. World War II had begun.
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Honoring their guarantee of Poland's borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany
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the evacuation of Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk
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Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening as German troops enter and occupy Paris.
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Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa,
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the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Congress declared war, and the United States entered World War II.
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he forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga.
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On the morning of June 4, 1942, aircraft from Japanese carriers attacked and damaged the US base on Midway.
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Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
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Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.
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Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies.
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landing operations and associated airborne operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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during the Pacific Campaign of World War II, U.S. Marines stormed the beaches of the strategically significant Japanese island of Saipan, with a goal of gaining a crucial air base
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the 2nd Armored Division swept clear the western half of Paris while the 4th Infantry Division cleared the eastern part.
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, the largest naval battle in history
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a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II
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Auschwitz concentration camp a Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp in occupied Poland where more than a million people were murdered as part of the Nazi's "final solution" to the Jewish question
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a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
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provided Allied forces an airbase from which bombers could strike Japan and an advanced anchorage for Allied fleets.
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designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II
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The death of Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, occurred on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe
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hitler swallowed a cyanide capsule and shot himself in the head.
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The unconditional surrender of the German Third Reich was signed
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the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
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The United States bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasak
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Planners of the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, marking the end not just to World War II but to 15 years of Japan's military rampage across Asia
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The United Nations came into existence, after 29 nations had ratified the Charter.
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Nazi Germany leaders stood trial for crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity