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Aldof Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the 1937 Neutrality Act
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Hermann Goering, warns all Jews to leave Austria.
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Fascist leader of Italy, Mussolini, promises to fight the democracies alongside Adolf Hitler's should war break out.
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Adolf Hitler is determined to invaid the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
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Hitler promises peace to leave Czechoslovakia alone.
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Time magazine prints its 1938 Man of the Year edition choosing Adolf Hitler for the title.
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German troops invade Poland on the ground while Hitler's air force bombs Polish cities from the sky.
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German fighter planes and ground troops pummel France.
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Adolf Hitler takes neutral Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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First British air raid on Berlin
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The first draft numbers are drawn, sending thousands of draftees to drill camps all over the country.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union violating the Nonaggression Pact.
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German siege of Leningrad begins
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Japanese fighter planes attack the American base at Pearl Harbor.
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The United States declares war on Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Italy and Germany declare war against the US.
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In England, the Allied powers assemble millions of men, tons of supplies, airplanes, and hundreds of ships in preparation for D-Day.
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The first of nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive in Normandy, on the northern shores of France.
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Allied troops take large portions of Normandy and Brittany initiating a German retreat.
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U.S. forces, aided by a Free French division, liberate Paris from Nazi control.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin.
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The German army signs an unconditional surrender.
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A formal surrender ceremony is conducted in Tokyo Bay on the U.S. battleship Missouri. World War II officially ends.
