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Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, !933 by President Paul von Hindenburg.
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Often considered the biginning of the war, Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939.
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Hitler broke his non-aggresion pack with Stalin on June 22, 1941 by invading the Soviet Union.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan was the event that brought America into the war.
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The first American offensive of the war was Operation Torch, a joint invasion of northern Africa to push the Axis out, starting on November 8, 1942.
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The allied powers invade Sicily in an attack codenamed Operation Husky begining on July 9, 1943.
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The third Axis power, Italy, was removed from the war on September 8, 1943.
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A combined force of American, British, and Canadian soldiers landed at Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. After facing stiff resistance upon landing, the forces prevailed and proceded with invading Europe.
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The final German offensive of the war, named for the bulge it made in the front line, the Battle of the Bulge started on December 16, 1944.
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The offical end of the war in Europe. Germany surrenders to the allied forces on May 8, 1945.
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The first city to be bombed by the first application of nuclear weapons was Heroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
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The second and last application of nuclear weapons in warfare was on Nagasaki, Japan on Augest 8, 1945.
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The end of the war in the pacific, and therefore the war as a whole. The Japanese Instument of Surrender was signed aboard the USS Missouri on Sptember 2, 1945.
