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Invasions of Poland by USSR and Germany, beginning World War II. Most of Poland is taken.
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Germany invades Denmark, Norway, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg.
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill
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Germany invades the USSR, then opens the Eastern Front.
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the Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the US Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. US enters the war, opening the Pacific Theatre
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Battle of Midway. The US Navy sinks four Japanese aircraft carriers in the fight that proves to be the turning point in the Pacific war.
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Battle of Stalingrad. Germany's entire Sixth Army is lost, and the war begins turning in favor of the Allies.
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Italy Surrenders
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D-Day Invasion Of Normady, France
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Several failed assassination attempts on hitlers life
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The Battle of Okinawa also called Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific of World War II
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Hitler commits suicide, shortly before the fall of Berlin and surrender of German forces in Europe.
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USA made the atomic bomb, and uses it in August to force the surrender of Japan. August 6th the first bomb was dropped on hiroshima. The second was dropped on august 9th in nagasaki
