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Nazi Germany invades Poland WW2 is beginning
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France and great Britain join the war to help Poland out
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September the 3rd marks the day that Britain, Neville Chamberlain declared war on Germany
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Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg, meaning lightning war, to take over much of western Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France
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Winston Churchill becomes the prime minister of Great Britian
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Germany invades Norway & Denmark
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Italy joins the war as a axis power
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Germany starts a swift bombing run on great britian these attaks are known as The battle of britian
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Italy, Germany, and Japan sign the Triartite act for all them to be on the same side in the war.
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Germay and the axis power attack russia with over 4 milion troops
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Pearl harbor was bombed by the axis power of Japan
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The Us superior navy defeats japans navy
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the allies advance to take over sicly
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Italy surrenders but mussolini escapes with the help of the germans
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D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans.
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Paris is liberated from German control
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The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. They lose to the Allies sealing the fate of the German army.
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US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima. After a fierce battle they capture the island.
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US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. He is succeeded by President Harry Truman.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the war.
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Germany surrenders to the Allies.
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The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The city is devastated.
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Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies.
