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  Germany invades Poland.
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  France and Great Britain declare war on Germany for invadig Poland.
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  Germany occupies the Netherlands, Belgium, and parts of France
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  Italy invades the south of France.
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  Nazi Germany, Italy and Hungary invade the Soviet Union.
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  Soviet troops are able to drive German troops out of Moscow in a full retreat.
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  Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, a US Naval base in Hawaii.
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  The US declares war on Japan and enters WWII.
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  Germany attacks one more time in an effort to reconquer Belgium. However it was unsucessful and they retreat.
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  The Soviet troops reach Berlin.
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  Hitler commits suicide.
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  Germany surrenders to the Allied troops.
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  The US drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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  The US drops the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
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  Japan surrenders, ending World War II.
