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A treaty signed by the Allied Powers and Germany, basically putting all of the responsibility of the war on Germany. This was the official end to WWI
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Russia's White Bolshevik Army comes together with other Russian officials to fully establish the USSR, making Russia "whole" once more.
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Germany goes through an economic depression, needing money to pay off their war debts. They needed a leader to get them out of this sufficating debt.
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Adolf Hitler, a Nazi leader and official, became popular enough to officially become chancellor of Germany
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Hitler passes a parliament making him the "Supreme Leader". This give officialy Hitler basicly power over all of Germany and its resources.
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Germany invades Poland, officially starting the war in a sense.
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The Soviets try to annex the eastern parts of Poland that were taken over by Hitler at this time. This officially marks when the Soviets acted in the war.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign a pact making sure they back each other up in the coming war. This formed what were the main forces of the Axis powers in WWII
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At the end of this battle Britain fought off German air forces. They then learned a crucial lesson that would help fuel their efforts, they learned that they can "block" or rather defeat the Germans
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A German U-boat fired on a U.S.destroyer. The U.S then engaged in fire with the U-boat. U.S. from this action, declared war on Germany
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Japanese directly attacked the U.S via an air strike on Pearl Harbour. This directly made the U.S. the Japanese's biggest force against them.
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The Japanese tried to re-attack Pearl Harbor but the U.S. successfully defended and crippled their enemies.
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Germans seized to attack the Soviets, via attacking Stalingrad. In response, the Russians burned the entire city down. When the Germans did take the city, they were met with a brutal winter. 90 percent of the germans died and the Soviet army then came in to reclaim the land, easily defeating the remaining forces.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower is made supreme commander of the Allied Powers in Europe.
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The Allied forces seized Italy. This then took Mussolini's power away from him. Soon, Italy was taken, then leading Mussolini trying to escape as a german soldier but was later shot dead.
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Allied powers stormed Normandy, France to try and bust through German Forces. This did work, finally giving the allied powers the edge they needed.
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Hitler, with his recently married wife, consume of a cyanide pill and then later die in an underground bunker. This finally takes the Nazis only real force, backing them up mentally, out of the picture.
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The Nazis officially surrender against the Allied Forces. They then sign a treaty declaring their surrender. They then celebrated V-E day, or Victory of Europe Day.
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The United States dropped two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. This metaphorically "put the foot down" on ending WWII.
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Japan issued a statement saying that they would surrender and that they would agree to the Potsdam Declaration
