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MaoZedong heads Long March
MaoZedong presents himslef to me leading the communists and poor famers throughout, when he flew in helicopter for stop to stop. -
Germany invades Poland; France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
1939- pact of steel solidified the rome berlin axis of 1936. Despite this italy initially remained uninvolved in WWII following Germany’s invasion of Poland -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
the attack took place on the morning of december 7, 1941 and
it is known as a day that will live in infamy. -
United Nations formed
On January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace. -
Germany surrenders
The German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France. -
Allies use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over Hiroshima that wiped out 90 percent of the city. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
