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Germany surrenders
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"Night of Broken Glass", also known as the start of the Holocaust
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Germany invades Poland; France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
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Hitler swept through the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, all as a part of a strategy to strike at France
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France surrenders to Germany; battle of Britain begins
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Battle of Britain ends
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Germans invade the Soviet Union
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America enters the war
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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Allies defeat Japan at Battle of Midway
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Battle of El Alamein
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Allies invade North Africa
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Allies defeat Japan at Guadalcanal, and Germans surrender at Stalingrad
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Italy surrendered to Germany
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D-Day invasion takes place
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Japanese suffer devastating defeat at the Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Battle of the Bulge
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When soviet soldiers entered the city of Warsaw
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Allies use atomic bombs; Japan surrenders
