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Germans strip jews of all rights through the Nuremberg laws.
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Jews were attacked and forced out of their homes and into labor camps. many were killed.
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The day before Nazi Germany attacked Poland, they dressed a dead soldier in Nazi Uniform and layed him in polish territory, they also had a few Nazi operatives pose as Polish military officers to stage an attack on a radio station. They used those events to justify thier attack on Poland.
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Nazi Germany invaded poland, which marked the start of WWII.
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Germans made many air attacks on Britain by dropping bombs on their miltary bases throughout many cities.
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FDR was reelected for his third term as President.
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FDR signed the Lend-Lease Act making it possible for the allied powers to pay the U.S. back after the war.
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Four million Germans invaded the Russian border. Killing more than two million Russians. They never did take control of Stalingrad though.
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Japan launched an attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The naval base was completly unaware and unprepared for the attack.
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The U.S. and Great Britain formally declare war on the Japanese Empire.
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Germany and Italy both side with Japan and declare war on the U.S.
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The day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy.
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Hitler and his wife both committed suicide in a bunker where they were hiding. Hitler shot himself with his pistol while his wife ingested cyanide.
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Marked the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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US ivaded Iwo Jima with the intent of capturing it.
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The US dropped an Atomic Bomb on Japan in Hiroshima.
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The US dropped the second Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki.
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Japan formally surrendered in a formal ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, ending World War II.
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Japanese sign the surrender agreement.
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