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Japanes invade the land of Manchuria which brings a tension to the war between the Soviets and the Japanese
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Hitler met with head of France, the United Kingdom, and Italy. An agreement was reached that Hitler could annex the Sudetenland and he promised not to invade anywhere else
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Stalin and Hitler sign a pact that they were to not attack each other during the war,
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Germany invading Poland was the official start of the war. German troops invaded Poland a week after signing the Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact. Which is the non-aggresion pact between Germany and the Soviet Union.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surenders on the day of the attack Norway lasts until June 9
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The battle of Stalingrad was a major battle in World War 2 there was over two and a half million Russians who were killed in this battle.
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Hitler attacks Germany even though they have a non-aggresion pact. Leading to the battle of Stalingrad
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Everything was fine with us until this very point. As the United States decided to stay nuetral Japan had to push our buttons. This is the offical beginning of the United States entering the war. When Japan attacks one of our most used and biggest military bases.
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After Pearl Habor on Dec. 8 we enter the war against Japan
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The Germans launch a massive tank offensive near Kursk in the Soviet Union
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More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy
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British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy
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Finland concludes an armistice with the Soviet Union, leaving the Axis partnership.
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The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the Battle of the Bulge,
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The Soviets launch a new offensive, liberating Warsaw and Krakow in January
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The marking of the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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This was the first atomic bomb that was dropped on Japan (besides all the other bombs this one impacted much more.) This bomb alone killed about 78,000 people and injuring 100,000 more
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Soviets said that after 3 months of us being in the war fighing on the Pacific they said they would join the war against Japan
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This was the second atomic bomb that was dropped in Japan. This bomb killed another 40,000 people
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By the end of the summer of 1945 the Japanese air force and naval bases were completely destroyed and they has no other choice but to surender
