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germany invaded poland
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allied forces declare war on Germany
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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Germany invades Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg
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Germany begins invasion on France
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German forces move south towards Paris
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Italy declares war on france and Great Britan
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German troops enter Paris
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France surenders to Germany
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Air war between Germany and Britain
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japanese start occupying bases in Indo-China
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Italian Navy defeated
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British Royal Navy gains control of the Mediterranean
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germany invades USSR; USSR joins the Allies in the war against Germany
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
USA declares war on Japan and joines Allied war efforts. -
Australia declares war on Japan
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Germany and Italy delcare war on USA
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Air war continues acrosse Europe
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Singapore surrenders to japan
22 000 (aprox.) Australians become POW's -
Japanese aircraft bomb Darwin, NT
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Allies began large-scale air attacks on Germany
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Battel of the coral sea
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Japanese midget submarines attack Sydeny Harbour
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Japanese decide to take Port Moresby by land invasion
Via the Kokoda trail -
australians defeat japanese at miline bay
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japanese begine their ratreate along the kokoda track
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Australians recapture kokoda
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Australian POW's forced to construct the Burma
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Germany suffer significant defaet in Russia
Battale of Starlingard -
italy declares war on germany
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Italy surenders to allies