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This was the beginning of WWII.
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Britain and France declared war against Germany.
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The U.S. declared they would not join the war.
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An unknown source attempted to assassinate Hitler after he finished giving a speech in a German Reich by setting off a bomb. Hitler, however, was unharmed.
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The Soviets were expelled from the League because of their invasion of Finland in October.
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The London Blitz began when 300 German bombers invaded London. This became known as the "lightning war" because of the amount of bombs lighting up the sky.
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The bombing of Pearl Harbor was an attack on the U.S. by Japan.
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The bombing of Pearl Harbor caused the U.S. to declare war on Japan, diminishing their neutrality.
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Hitler gained complete control over the German Army.
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The Declaration of the United Nations was signed by 26 allies.
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Japanese-Americans were relocated to U.S. relocation centers because the U.S. did not trust people of other ethnicity during the war.
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Germans began killing Jews in Auschwitz by gassing them, leading to a mass murder of Jews.
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The mass execution of Jews by the Nazi party was discovered when British Foreign Secretary Eden informed the British House of Commons about it.
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Germany suffered it's first big defeat of Hitler's army at Stalingrad.
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Eisenhower announced the surrendering of Italy to allies.
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D-Day began when roughly 155,000 American, British, and Canadian forces invaded the coasts of France's Normandy regions. It was one of the largest military assaults in history.
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The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, destroying 90% of the population and instantly killing 80,000 people.
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The second atomic bomb the U.S. dropped was on Nagasaki. it killed about 40,000 people and lead to Japan's unconditional surrender to the war.
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WWII ended when Japan signed the surrender agreement after the atomic bombs were dropped on two of their cities.
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Once the war was over, the United Nations was officially brought on after many allies joined together to make it possible.