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Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe. Honoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.

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Working in concert with Hitler, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin orders the invasion of Poland, securing a share of Polish territory. Warsaw gets captured and the country is taken over.

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British cruisers defeat a German pocket battleship at the Battle of the River Plate, the first major naval engagement of World War II.

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Germany invades Norway, ending a 6-month period of limited land operations called the “Phony War.”

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Winston Churchill replaces Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister. The same day, Germany invades Belgium.

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The trapped British army evacuates to England from Dunkirk, France, surviving to fight another day.

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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, starting war with the US. Seeing the U.S weakness after getting attacked, Hitler declares war on America 4 days later.

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Germany gets trapped from all sides because they broke the treaty with the Soviet Union after they tried to attack them. Germany got flattened from all sides and Hitler took his life so he wouldn't surrender. Germany appointed a new leader and he surrendered a week later.

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The US fought Japan after they attacked them at pearl harbor. The US was going to do whatever they needed to do to get their revenge. The dropped atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan surrendered.