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Germany invades Poland using the blitzkreig tatic. It was also called lightning war. In included three waves: air, tank, and infantry.
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Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.
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Italy enters the war with the Axis Powers.
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Airial warfare at Britain that ends with German defeat.
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Italy, Germany, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
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4,000,000 US troops are sent to Russia. Within the month, more than 2.5 million Russians had been killed or captured.
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The Japanese use their air ships to bomb Pearl Harbor, destorying much of our own equipment. This coerces America to join the war.
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Japanese invade the Philippine Islands. Americans surrender.
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Large -mostly naval- battle said to be the turning point of the war.
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Internment camps in America were created after the bombing at Pearl Harbor. Japanese Americans were placed in these camps.
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Italy surrenders from the war.
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Code name for the battle at Normandy. This operation pitted German invaded territory against the Allied Forces.
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US invasion of Normandy.
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US enters the volcanic Japanese island of Iwo Jima. Japanese use Guerilla Warfare. Place of the famous flag raising.
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Hitler kills himself in his bunker. He knows the war is lost.
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Germany surrenders. The title pretty much explains it.
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US drops the first Atomic weapon on Hiroshima.
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Americans make the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki.
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The Emperor of Japan surrender over the radio.
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After V-J Day, Japan signs the official papers marking the end of the war.