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German military mobilizes
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British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich.
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Czech government resigns.
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Spanish Civil war ends.
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Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy.
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Nazis and Soviets sign Pact
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Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty.
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British fleet mobilizes; Civilian evacuations begin from London
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Nazis invade Poland.
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Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
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Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland
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Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
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Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.
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Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland
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Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
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Battle of Britain begins.
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Italians invade Egypt
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Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.
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Romania joins the axis Power.
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Tobruk in North Africa falls to the British and Australians.
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British forces advance into Italian Somaliland in East
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President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.
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Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.
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Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy.
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Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins
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Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations.
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Hitler declares war on the United States.
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First American forces arrive in Great Britain.
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German air raids begin against cathedral cities in Britain.
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First thousand-bomber British air raid (against Cologne).
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Nazis liquidate Lidice in reprisal for Heydrich's assassination.
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Soviet resistance in the Crimea ends.
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Rommel driven back by Montgomery in the Battle of Alam Halfa.
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Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos.
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Germans and Italians invade unoccupied Vichy France
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Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad.
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Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders in Munich.
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German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa.
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Allies bomb Rome.
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Soviet troops recapture Kharkov.
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Germans rescue Mussolini.
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Allies enter Naples, Italy.
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Russians recapture Kiev in the Ukraine.
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Soviet troops advance into Poland.
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Germans counter-attack against the Anzio beachhead.
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Second Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino begins.
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Germans retreat from Anzio.
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Soviet offensive against the Finnish front begins.
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British and Canadian troops capture Caen, France.
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Germans begin a major counter-attack toward Avranches.
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Finland and the Soviet Union agree to a cease-fire.
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French capture Strasbourg.
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Soviet troops besiege Budapest.
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Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland.
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Last German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary.
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Soviets reach Berlin.
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German troops in Italy surrender.
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Hermann Göring is captured by members of the U.S. 7th Army.
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Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government.
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Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government.
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American, British, and French troops move into Berlin.
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First U.S. atomic bomb test; Potsdam Conference begins.
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First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.
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Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan
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Japanese agree to unconditional surrender.
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United Nations is born.
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Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.
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Hermann Göring commits suicide two hours before his scheduled execution.
