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Adolf Hitler is elected Chancellor of Germany. He abolishes democracy and becomes a dictator. Japan and Germany leave the League of Nations
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription
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Germany and Russia sign non-aggression pact, secretly agreeing to invade Poland and share it.
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Germany invades Poland and this is the start of World War 2
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Japan joins The Axis powers of Germany, Italy, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria
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Germany invades France, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg. Winston Churchill becomes Britain's prime minister
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Belgium surrenders to the Nazis.
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German Blitz against Britain begins. Eight days later Germany also produces massive German air raids on London, Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool and Manchester.
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Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.
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Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars. This also was part of the start of Nazi persecution of the Jews. Days later gas chambers were used for the first time in the concentration camp; Auschwitz. At the end of September the Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev.
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The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree. The next day the United States and Britain declare war on Japan.
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Adolf Hitler takes complete control of the German Army
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On the first day of the year of 1942 the Declaration of the United Nations is signed by 26 Allied nations.
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Battle of Stalingrad begins
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Soviets defeat Italian troops on the River Don in the USSR.
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Mussolini gets arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls; Marshal Pietro Badoglio takes over and negotiates with Allies.
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Germans occupy Rome. That next day the German rescue Mussolini. After being rescued, Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government.
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The British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany.
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160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France, also known as D- Day
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Soviet troops liberate the first concentration camp at Majdanek.
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Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
