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September 1
World war 2 begins -
September 3
Britian and France declared war on Germany -
September 17
Soviet Union invades Poland -
May 26 - June 4
Miracle of Dunkirk -
June 11
Italy enters war on side of axis powers -
August 12
Battle of Britain, concerted attack on British airfields was launched -
June 22
Hitler attacks Russia operation Barbarossa -
December 7
Surprise attack by imperial Japanese navy Air Force on Pearl Harbor -
December 8
Britain and United States declared war on Japan -
June 4
Battle of midway -
June 6
Normandy landings, known as D-Day -
January 28
Battle of the bulge ends -
February 19
U.S. marines land on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima -
March 29
The last bomb dropped on Britain -
April 30
Adolf Hitler committed suicide as he knows Germany lost the war -
May 8
Victory in Europe day -
August 6
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima -
August 9
U.S. dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan -
August 14
Japanese surrenders -
September 2
World war 2 ends