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Mao Zedong leads the communist party into the mountans to escape the Nationalist party who are pursuing them.
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Germany invades Poland to prompt the Allies to declare war. Russia takes over the other half of Poland. This marks the start of the war on the European front.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the dagger to Japan's throat, as well as many other territories such as Guam and the Philiipines. They had hoped to cripple the American Fleet.
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Germany finally surrneders after their loss at the battle of the Bulge and also after Hitler commits suicide.
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The United Nations was fromed and consisted of 48 countries. There was a security council of whih the US was one that could veto any proposition.
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The U.S. drops two bombs, one on Nagasaki and one on Hiroshima. They did this to prevent more deaths from both sides.
