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This is the start of the war.
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They declare war because Germany invaded Poland.
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Hitler invades to guard supply routes of Swedish ore and also to create a Norwegian base to break the British naval blockade on Germany.
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Chamberlain resigns and gives Churchill his spot in government.
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The Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force.
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Mussolini joins the Axis powers to team up with Hitler.
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This pact formalized the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia and took the Russian by surprise as they had signed a treaty with Germany in 1939. Stalin then signed a mutual assistance treaty with Britain and the U.S. agreed to provide similar assistance.
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A surprise military attack by the Japanese on the U.S. Navy base in Pearl Harbor which led to the U.S. declaring war on Japan and then eventually their entry to WWII.
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The Japanese captured Singapore from the British, taking some 60,000 prisoners.
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The U.S. defeated the Japanese at the Battle of Midway.
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This allowed the U.S. Navy to push Japan back.
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Codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign of WWII.
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The surrender came after several weeks of negotiations between the Italian government and the Allies in the wake of Mussolini's removal from power.
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Codenamed Operation Overlord, this was a battle where some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on beaches of France’s Normandy region.
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The capital is freed from the control of Germany.
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Germany launched its final defensive through the Ardennes region of Belgium. But were beaten back by the allies.
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They invaded because they saw it was the perfect place to build airfields to launch bombing raids against Japan which was only 660 miles away.
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The Allies crossed the Rhine while Soviet forces were approaching Berlin from the East as a plan to encircle and capture the Ruhr.
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FDR suddenly complained of a pain in the back of his head and collapsed unconscious and died from a massive cerebral hemorrhage.
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bombproof shelter with his mistress, Eva Braun.
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German forces to the Allies in Italy.
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During the final stage of World War II, the U.S. bombed two Japanese cities the first one being Hiroshima.
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This was the second bombing of the two done by the U.S.
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Japan formally surrendered to the Allies, thus ending the Second World War.
