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Info: President Hindenburg named Hitler Chancellor in the hope of creating a stable government
Info Link: http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ks3/the-nazi-rise-to-power/how-did-the-nazis-gain-support/hitler-becomes-chancellor/#.WNytZraGN5w
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On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland.
Link: https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005070
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Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter’s resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons.
Link: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/churchill-becomes-prime-minister
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The Battle of Britain Begins
Link: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-britain
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The German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact fell apart in June 1941, when Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union.
Link: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/german-soviet-nonaggression-pact
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Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
Link: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
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After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.
Link: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march
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This four-day World War II skirmish in May 1942 marked the first air-sea battle in history.
Link: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-coral-sea
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Battle of Midway, (June 3–6, 1942), World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots.
Link: https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Midway
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The Battle of Stalingrad (July 17, 1942-Feb. 2, 1943), was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the U.S.S.R. during World War II.
Link: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad
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On this day in 1943, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies. Germany reacted with Operation Axis, the Allies with Operation Avalanche.
Link: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/italian-surrender-is-announced
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On June 6, 1944, the Allies invade Western Europe in the largest amphibious attack in history.
Link: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
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Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers.
Link: https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007724
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After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division.
Link: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/paris-liberated
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In December 1944, Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp.
Link: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge
Pic: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-the-bulge-begins -
On February 19, 1945, American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima.
Link: http://www.history.com/news/the-battle-of-iwo-jima-begins-70-years-ago
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies
Link: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/fdrdeath.htm
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Der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol, on this day in 1945, as his “1,000-year” Reich collapses above him.
Link: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide-in-his-underground-bunker
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On May 7, 1945, Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, bringing an end to the European conflict in World War II.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/germany-surrenders-allies-date-nazis-wwii_n_3230901.html
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On this day in 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Link: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-first-atomic-bomb-test-is-successfully-exploded
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The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki exploded at 11:02 A.M. on August 9.
Link: http://orwell.ru/library/articles/ABomb/english/e_japan
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Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II
Link: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japan-surrenders
Pic: http://www.thehistoryreader.com/modern-history/september-2-1945-formal-surrender-japan-images/
