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On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party ), as chancellor of Germany.
Info: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-is-named-chancellor-of-germany
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Dachau was the first concentration camp created. It was made to burn the jews.
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Germany invaded Poland and started war in Europe.
info: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-poland
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Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter’s resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons.
info: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/churchill-becomes-prime-minister
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in 1940, after withholding formal allegiance to either side in the battle between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain.
Info: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/italy-declares-war-on-france-and-great-britain
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German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom.
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The Japanese bombed the American harbor
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the Japanese forced 76,000 captured Allied soldiers (Filipinos and Americans) to march about 80 miles across the Bataan Peninsula.
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On the fourth day of WWII, the first air and sea war had begun.
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Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II.
Info: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway
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Greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. info: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad picture: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingra
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Gen. Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies. Germany reacted with Operation Axis, the Allies with Operation Avalanche.
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The Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.
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After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division.
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Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne.
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the American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast.
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an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power.
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Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol.
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The German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France.
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Aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II.
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