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The Nazis invade Poland
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Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
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France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany.
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German troops enter Romania. and Italy invades Greece.
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British forces arrive in Greece.
- President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.
- A coup in Yugoslavia overthrows the pro-Axis government.
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Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.
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Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets.
- British occupy Syria.
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree.
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SS Leader Heydrich holds the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
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Japanese-Americans sent to relocation centers.
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- Heydrich dies of wounds.
- Germans besiege Sevastopol.
- Nazis liquidate Lidice in reprisal for Heydrich's assassination.
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British General Bernard Montgomery takes command of Eighth Army in North Africa.
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
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Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta.
- Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids.
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U.S. troops encircle Germans in the Ruhr; Allied offensive in northern Italy.
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Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies.
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First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.
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Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Japanese sign the surrender agreement; V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.