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In 1933, Hitler was assigned the position of Chancellor. -
Using Blitzkrieg tactics, German troops invade Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Denmark and Norway over a 5 year period. -
Soon after the treaty of Munich, the Germany troops began to invade Czechoslovakia . -
Believing that Poland should be a part of Germany, Hitler and his troops soon began to invaded different parts of Poland. -
Involving only French troops, the phoney war was an eight-month period at the start of World War II in which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front. -
The United Kingdom declared war on Germany on Sunday 3 September 1939. France also declared war on Germany later the same day. -
Shortly before Germany defeated France, Italy joined the war as Germany's ally. -
The government of the United Kingdom declared war on the Empire of Japan on 8 December 1941, following the Japanese, as well as in response to the bombing of the US fleet at Pearl Harbor. -
The Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. -
In less than a year, American ground troops will fight German forces in North Africa. -
After months of fierce fighting and heavy casualties, German forces (numbering now only about 91,000 surviving soldiers) surrender at Stalingrad. -
In Sicily (Italy), after allies invade the city, it led to the collapse of Mussolini's government. Early in the morning of July 25, he was forced to resign and was arrested later that day. -
July Mussolini's government 'practically evaporated', after which its successor, led by Marshal Badoglio, 'dithered' until finally accepted the inevitable and surrendered to the Allies -
Known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history, the operation, given the codename OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France. -
The V2 flying bombs were first successfully launched on October 3, 1942, and were fired against Paris on September 6, 1944. -
This strategic crossing of the Rhine river, started on March 23rd, 1945. When Allied forces reached the Rhine they found just about everything across the river already destroyed. -
Two days before Russia declares war on Japan, an atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. -
In between the 6th and 9th of August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people. -
Two days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the day before the second bomb fell on Nagasaki, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan.