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August 23: Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.

September 1: Germany invades Poland, starting World War II.

September 3: Britain and France declare war on Germany.

September: Battle of the Atlantic begins.

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May: Auschwitz is established.

May 10: Germany invades France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

May 26: Evacuation begins of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France.

June 10: Italy declares war on France and Great Britain.

June 22: France surrenders to Germany.

July 10: Battle of Britain begins.

September 16: The United States begins its first peacetime draft.

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March 11: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill.

May 24: The British ship Hood is sunk by Germany's Bismarck.

May 27: The Bismarck is sunk.

June 22: Germany invades the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa).

August 9: Atlantic Conference begins.

September 8: Siege of Leningrad begins.

December 7: The Japanese launch a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

December 11: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States; then the United States declares war on Germany and Italy.

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January 20: The Wannsee Conference

February 19: Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066, which allows the internment of Japanese Americans.

April 18: The Doolittle Raid on Japan

June 3: The Battle of Midway begins.

July 1: First Battle of El Alamein begins.

July 6: Anne Frank and her family go into hiding.

August 2: Guadalcanal Campaign begins.

August 21: Battle of Stalingrad begins.

October 23: Second Battle of El Alamein begins.

November 8: The Allies invade North Africa (Operation Torch)

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January 14: Casablanca Conference begins.

February 2: The Germans surrender at Stalingrad, Soviet Union.

April 19: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins.

July 5: Battle of Kursk begins.

July 25: Mussolini resigns.

September 3: Italy surrenders.

November 28: Tehran Conference begins

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January 27: After 900 days, the Siege of Leningrad is finally over.2

June 6: D-Day

June 19: Battle of the Philippine Sea

July 20: Assassination attempt against Hitler fails.

August 4: Anne Frank and her family are discovered and arrested.

August 25: The Allies liberate Paris.

October 23: Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.

December 16: Battle of the Bulge begins.

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February 13: Allies begin bombing Dresden.

February 19: Battle of Iwo Jima begins.

April 1: Battle of Okinawa.

April 12: Franklin D. Roosevelt dies.

April 16: Battle of Berlin begins.

April 28: Mussolini is hanged by Italian partisans.

April 30: Adolf Hitler commits suicide.

May 7: Germany signs an unconditional surrender.

July 17: Potsdam Conference begins.

August 6: The United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

August 9: The United States drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.