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The signing of the Treaty of Versailles ended WWI.
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The worst economic downturn in history in America.
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Hitler is named chancellor of Germany.
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Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.
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Hitler used blitzkrieg to invade Poland. This act started WWll.
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The first all-air battle between Germany's Luftwaffe and Britain's RAF (Royal Air Force). Takes place in Britain.
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Japanese warplanes bombed Pearl Harbor. Drew the United States into WWII.
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16 American B-25 bombers commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle attacked Tokyo.
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Japanese planned to attack Midway island with aircraft carriers but the Americans set up their own aircraft carriers to surprise the Japanese
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It was a successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad.
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American marines attacked Guadalcanal while Japanese airbase was being built.
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Allies attack Italy and topples Mussolini from power.
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Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War Il
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156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.
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Last major german offensive of WWII on the west to separate the American and British and cut off their supply lines.
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The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima. Japanese defended from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations.
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United States and Europe celebrated as Nazi germany surrendered.
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American B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb known as "Little Boy" by parachute on Hiroshima.
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American B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb, nicknamed "Fat Man," on Nagasaki.
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Japan surrenders to the Allies.
