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Adolf Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany.
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Italy, under control of Benito Mussolini invades Ethiopia.
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FDR signs document issuing an arms embargo on warring nations.
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German Chancellor Adolf Hitler declares Austria as part of the Third Reich.
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Hitler's second in command and Marshal of the Third Riech, warns all Jews to leave Austria.
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Time Magazine released its 1938 Man of the Year edition selecting Hitler for the title but does not show his face on the cover.
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Passenger ship containing 907 jews goes back to Europe as the United States would not allow it to dock.
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Germany invades Poland
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Germany invades USSR violatig nonagression pact.
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USS Greer provokes German submarine to fire. In retaliation FDR orders all naval ships to fire at any Axis battleships the encounter.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
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Red Army traps and captures German Armies that invaded the USSR
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Turning point for Americans, USA finally makes advancement in war against their Pacific enemy Japan.
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USA troops cross North Africa into Sicily and from there ito Italy.
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The U.S.A. invades the beaches of Normandy
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Italian government officially surrenders to the Allied Powers. Still Germany occupies much of Italy.
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FDR dies of a ceribral hemorrage
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Italian insurgents capture and muder Mussolini and mutilate his body.
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Adolf Hitler takes sionide pill and commits suicide in Berlin.
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German Military forces surrender 1 day after Hitler's suicide.
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Also known as VE Day. Marks the surrender of the Nazi armed forces.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb, the first to be used in warfare, on Hiroshima, killing 75,000 people instantly, and injuring more than 100,000.
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A second atom bomb is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan
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The surrender of Japan brought all the hostilities of WWII to an end.
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A traditional surrender ceremony is held in Tokyo.
