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The Enabling Act - allows Hitler to be independent of the presidential power. (TOO MUCH POWER)

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Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy form the Rome-Berlin Axis treaty.

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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact. This was a pact against communism and Russia.

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Japan invades China.

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Hitler annexes the country of Austria into Germany. This is also called the Anschluss.

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Germany invades Poland.

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France and Great Britain declare war on Germany

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Germany Invades and takes control of Denmark and Norway.

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Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg, meaning lightning war, to take over much of western Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France.

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Winston Churchill becomes leader of the British government.

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Italy enters the war as a member of the Axis powers.

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Germany launches an air attack on Great Britain. These attacks last until the end of October and are known as the Battle of Britain.

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At the Army High Command conference, Hitler announces that Germany must prepare to invade Russia.

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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance.

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Germany and the Axis Powers attacked Russia with a huge force of over four million troops.

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The Japanese attacked the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies.

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The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway.

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The last German soldier in Stalingrad surrenders. The United States Army Air Force joins with the RAF in bombing Nazi Germany.

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The Allies invade and take the Island of Sicily.

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Italy surrenders to the Allies, however Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern italy.

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D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans

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Paris is liberated from German control.

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The Germans Need Help! All male Germans 16-60 years of age called to join the Nazi Army.

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The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. They lose to the Allies sealing the fate of the German army.

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US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima. After a fierce battle they capture the island.

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The US Third Army under General Patton crosses the Rhine River.

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Hitler commits suicide.

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Germany surrenders to the Allies

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The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The city is devastated.

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Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

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Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies.