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Hitler builds up a standing army and invades the de-milatarized zone of Rhineland.
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German and Soviet representatives sign a non-agression, ensuring that neither nation will attack the other.
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Hitler and Muissolini form the Rome-Berlin Axis, a defesive pact between the two.
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Japan and Germany sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, a defensive pact between the two. It also declared that both governemnts were against communism.
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Nanking,a major Chinese city,is taken by the Japanese government. During several months after thismass muders and mass rapes of Chinese citizens occured frequently.
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Germany invaded Poland on September 1st, 1939. Two days later both Framce and Great Britain declare war on Germany. WWII has officialy begun.
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Fance sign an unconditional Armistice with Germany after being invaded.
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The Japanese Navy is decimated at the Battle of Midway Island. After this attack United States victory is seemingly guaranteed.
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Japanese forces bomb Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The American Navy is severely damaged and there are heavy United States casualties.
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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor the United States officially declares war on Japan one day later. Germany then declares war on the Unite4d States as part of its alliance with Japan
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The German's Sixth Army surrenders at the Battle of Stalingrad to Soviet troops. This devastating loss made Hitler withdraw troops from teh Soviet Union and was a major victory for the Allies.
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Italy signs the Armistice of Cassibile, unconditionally surrendering from the war.
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Brtish, United States, and Canadian forces succsesfully land troops in Normandy. This is the first major landing of Allied troops in mailand Europe since the fall of France.
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Germany unconditionalyl surrenders to Allied Forces, ending the Eurpoean theater.
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The United States uses the first atomic bomb in histroy on the civilain Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima the Untied States bomb the civilian Japanese city Nagasaki with the second, and final atomic bomb ever dropped.
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After two atomic bombings on civilian cities Japan formally surrenders to the United States, ending the Pacific theater.
