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Japan invades Manchuria because they considered the Chinese revolution a threat to the econmic assets they had there
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German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland.
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The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF from July to September 1940.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the tirpartite pact to form the axis powers
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The U.S. Government signs this act making it legal to send supplies to the Allies while keeping the U.S. out of the war
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German forces begin their siege of Leningrad, a major industrial center and the USSR's second-largest city.
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The Japanese attacked the American Naval base at Oahu by surprise
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The meeting of Nazi leaders to discuss the "final solution"
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The U.S. navy attacks the Japanese Fleet at the island of midway
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The sucessful Soviet defense of the CIty of Stalingrad
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Failed attempts to bomb The Soviets
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Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world.
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Marines invade the Japanese controlled island of Iwo Jima
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HItler takes a cyanide pill and shoots himself
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Germany and Italy Surrender to the Allies
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Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin,British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman met to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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An atomic bomb is dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan
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Japan suurenders unconditionally to the Allies
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President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
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Secretary of State George C. Marshall issued a call for a comprehensive program to rebuild Europe.
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United States and 11 other Western nations form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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75,000 soldiers from the People's Army of North Korea attempted to invade South Korea
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Nikita Khrushchev begins to rise to power in the Soviet Union after Stalin dies
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Joseph Stalin dies
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The vietnam war begins
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The first artifical earth satilite Launched by the Soviet Union
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The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro
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East Germany begins construction of the Berlin Wall
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Soviet Union sends nuclear missiles to Cuba. Thirteen Days later, Khrushchev offered to remove them if the U.S. agreed not to invade Cuba
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Gorbachev resigns after 11 of the Soviet republics announced that they would no longer be a part of the Soviet Union
