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Nazis sign Pact of Steel with Italy
Hitler and Mussolini sign an agreement creating an alliance with the two countries -
Hitler invades Poland
Germany invades Poland causing Britain and France to declare war on Germany 2 days later -
Nazis invade Denmark and Norway
German warshiops enter major Noregian ports, from Narvik to Olso
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First German air raids on London
Germany begins to bomb London -
Operation Sea Lion is planned
Hitler begins to plan his invasion of Britain -
Germany Blitz against Britain Begins
Germany uses its most devastating tactic in an attempt to capture Great Britain for Germany -
Italians invade Egypt
Italy Invades Egypt but were stopped by British already waiting there -
FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill
this bill allowed america to lend and sell anything to any nation that is defending america -
President Roosevelt signs the lend lease act
the act allowed the U.S to sell or lend supplies and still staying neutral -
Jew begin to be Murdered
62,000 Jews are murdered in western Russia -
Germany launches Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union
Nazis invade the Soviet Union but was not able to advance and was pushed back by the Soviet Union -
Japaneses bomb Pearl Harbor
Japanese air force bomb the U.S naval base of Pearl harbor killing 1,178 killed and 68 civilians killed -
Britain and U.S declare war on Japan
Britain and U.S declare war on Japan after Japan attacks British troops in Malaya, Singapore ,and Hong Kong and U.S when Japan attacks Pear Harbor -
Hitler declares war on the United States
Hitler declares war on U.S after the U.S sank and destroyed some of Germany's submarines -
Britain and Australia take Tobruk, North Africa
241 days of fighting allied troops were under seige with only an skeleton force left to defend with little supplies,and were saved when Britain organized a counter-offensive to assist those fighting -
Italy surrenders to Allies
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Roosevelt, Churchill ,and Stalin meet at Yalta
THe big 3 meet in Yalta to agree on what to do with Germany after it is defeated -
Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Victory over Europe
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First Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
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Second Atomic bomb on Nagasaki,Japan
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Japanese sign the surrender agreement
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United Nation is born
