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Germany invades the Rhineland the netural zone between france and germany
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Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania.
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Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation on October 25; on November 1, the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced.
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Hitler invaded Austria claming to want to reunite the german speaking people
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Conference between, Hitler,Mussonlini,Chamberlin, Daladier about Germanies invasion of czechoslevakia
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Germany is granted the sudentalnd from the munich conference
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After taking the sudentenland where most of Czechloslavikia armed forces were germnay easily takes the rest
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Agreement between USSR and Germany to not fight each other and to divide up poland once it is taken.
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Germany invades poland
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Britian and France declare war on Germany
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Warsaw surrenders on September 27. The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9.
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Germany attacks western Europe—France and the neutral Low Countries. Luxembourg is occupied on May 10; the Netherlands surrenders on May 14; and Belgium surrenders on May 28. On June 22, France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline. In southern France, a collaborationist regime with its capital in Vichy is established.
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May 26 - Evacuation begins of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France
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June 10 - Italy declares war on France and Great Britain
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July 10, 1940–October 31, 1940
The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany. -
September 13, 1940
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September 27, 1940
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February 19 - Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066, which allows the internment of Japanese Americans
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March 11 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill
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June 22 - Germany invades the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa)
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August 9 - Atlantic Conference begins
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December 7 - The Japanese launch a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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June 3 - The Battle of Midway begins
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July 5 - Battle of Kursk begins
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November 8 - The Allies invade North Africa (Operation Torch)
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February 2 - The Germans surrender at Stalingrad, Soviet Union
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September 3 - Italy surrenders
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January 27 - After 900 days, the Siege of Leningrad is finally over
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June 6 - D-Day
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August 25 - The Allies liberate Paris
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December 16 - Battle of the Bulge begins
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April 30 - Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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May 7 - Germany signs an unconditional surrender
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August 6 - The United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
