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In 1937, Japanese forces invade China and commit many atrocities.
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Hitler and his army march into Poland and takes the country using his infamous Blitzkrieg method.
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Germany and their armies are using the Blitzkrieg method of warfare. It is highly effective as it catches land and sea vehicles off guard and can change the fate of the battle instantly.
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The soon to be biggest death camp, Auschwitz, is starting to begin their mass extermination of the Jews.
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Winston Churchill, a war hero, is now newly elected as Prime Minister of Britain.
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Hitler decides to end the "phony war" by going and planning to invade Russia. Stalin is not amused by this.
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Japan takes the US by surprise by bombing a navy base in Hawaii, Pearl Harbor on an early sunday morning.
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America defeats the Japanese forces at "the Battle of Midway" and forces Japan's offensive back.
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During the invasion of Russia, many Soviets died. However, as the Germans marched through Stalingrad, the Soviets surrounded the city as the harsh winter closed in. When the winter inevitibly came, many German soldiers died to the harsh cold and starvation.
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After many losses, Germany decides to surrender at Stalingrad to avoid losing much more men.
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After the Allies invaded Africa and defeated the Afrika Corps, they went onwards to Rome. Within a month, the Allies had forced the Italians to surrender.
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Allied troops from Britain, USA, and Canada start storming the beaches of Normandy in order to gain land. On the first day, 10,000 soldiers had died. After a month, many more die.
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Guam is liberated by the US Okinawa from Japanese forces.
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Auschwitz is invaded by the Soviets and causes many Jews to be liberated from the German death camp.
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The Soviet forces that started marching toward Berlin from Russia had finally reached Berlin and began assaulting the city.
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After the attack of Stalingrad, the Germans started retreating. Not soon after, the Soviets started to gain land in Europe and started pushing to Berlin.
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Hitler sees that this is the end, and commits suicide by digesting a cyanide pill and shooting himself.
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After the death of Hitler, the Nazi army could not withstand the war much longer. They finally surrendered and WWII is starting to come to an end.
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The USA decided to bomb two major Japanese cities with their newly developed and highly secret atom bombs named, Fat man and Little boy
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VJ day, or Victory over Japan day, was the day when WWII officially came to an end. Japan surrendered after the devastating attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the atomic bombs.
