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Date: 1 Sep 1939
Significance:Germany invaded Poland with 53 divisions and 1,600 aircraft on 1 September. Combined arms attacks integrating tanks, artillery, infantry and air strikes proved particularly outclassed, the Poles were thrown into retreat. This is important because Great Britain, and France declared war on September 3rd ,and other commonwealth nations soon followed.

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Date: 05 Jun 1940
Significance: The Battle of France was over and Britain stood alone as the last Allied country in Europe to stand against the aggression of Germany.After a week of intense fighting, powerful German formations broke through west and east Paris. During the same period the Germans outflanked the formidable French Maginot Line defenses.

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Date: 17 Dec 1940
The lend-lease program provided for military aid to any country whose defense was vital to the security of the United States. In November 1939 he secured "cash and carry" provisions allowing belligerents to buy munitions in the Unites States, provided they transported themselves.In September 1940 the United States passes its first peace time Selective Service Act[]\

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Date: 22 Jun 1941

The attack on the Soviet Union marked a turning point in both the history of World War II and the Holocaust.On 22 June 1941 the Germans attacked with a massive force, the equivalent of over 160 divisions. They were soon aided by Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Rumanian and Slovakian forces.

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Date:6 Sep 1941
Significance:Jews throughout Nazi-occupied Europe were forced to wear a badge in the form of a Yellow Star as a means of identification.On September 6 the Nazis directed that all Jews in occupied Europe wear distinctive Star of David badges to facilitate immediate identification.

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Date: 07 Dec 1941

Significance:The United States officially joins the Allies in WWII.The United States championed increasingly severe economic sanctions to reverse Japanese aggression.In July 1941 the United States and the Allies responded to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China by freezing assets and canceling oil deals, effectively cutting off seventy-five percent of Japan's 6tarde and ninety of it's oil.

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Date: Oct 20, 1941

Significance:The importance of this location forced the United States to call Army General Douglas MacArthur, who had retired in the Philippines, to serve in the Filipino Army as a field marshal.The Japanese enjoyed naval and superiority from the outset, and quickly seized airfields ashore after preliminary landings beginning on December 10.On December 22 they launched their man attack trough the Lingayen Gulf , and on the next day launched a smaller invasion force through the Lamon Bay.

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Date: 04 Jun 1942

The U.S. Navy was then able to launch a surprise attack on the larger Japanese fleet in the area. The Americans had broken Japanese naval codes sufficiently to develop invaluable intelligence. Avoiding a surface battle against the numerically superior Japanese carriers by air while the Japanese planes were bombing Midway or replenishing themselves upon having returned to their carriers.

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Date: 4 Jul 1942
China’s poorly equipped army was outclassed by the modernized Japanese, and suffered from political discord as well. In addition to fighting the Japanese, Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fought off and on with forces of the Chinese Communist Party and had only nominal control over semi-autonomous warlords who controlled much of his army. Nevertheless, the war in China tied down a major fraction of the Japanese Army.Allied planners considered it vital to keep them committed in that theater.

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Date:17 Sep 1942
An atomic bomb send to Germans.Of numerous projects to harness scientific knowledge, none was more elaborate or consequential than the so-called “Manhattan Project” to build an atomic bomb.The United States government mobilized scientists and engineers to assist the war effort, poring millions of dollars into laboratories.Of numerous projects to harness scientific knowledge .

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German U-boats break contact in North Atlantic

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German U-boats break contact in North Atlantic

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Date: 22 May 1943
On May 22 German Karl Donitz ordered U-Boats in the North Atlantic to break off operations to avoid further catastrophic losses. This proved a pivotal event. Donitz hoped technological developments or a change in the strategic situation might allow the U- Boats to resume operations at less of a disadvantage .Meanwhile the Allies exploited the Atlantic sea lanes with increasing volumes of traffic and the U-Boat menace receded.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Date: 6 June 1944
Great Britain and the United States committed to an invasion through France, Operation Overlord, to cooperate with the Soviet Union in achieving that purpose.A massive Allied force of almost three million built up in the British Islands . Allied bombing and French Resistance attacks isolated the future battlefield, while elaborate security and deception plans focused German attention in the vicinity of the Pas-de-Calais.

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President FDR dies during 4th term; Vice-President Truman becomes President of the U.S. 

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President FDR dies during 4th term; Vice-President Truman becomes President of the U.S. 

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Date: April 12, 1945
Significance: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge

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Date: 7 May 1945
Significance:German armed forces surrendered unconditionally in the west on May 7 and in the east on May 9, 1945. As allied offensives overwhelmed Germany,German forces cut off in Italy,Berlin, the Netherlands, northwest Germany,Denmark,and the fortress city of Breslau surrendered separately. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was executed by partisans on 28 April, and Hitler committed suicide on 30 April.

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Date: 6 Aug 1945

Hiroshima and the subsequent bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945,The Japanese government ignored the ultimatum. President Harry S. Truman resolved to drop an Atomic Bomb, newly proven at the Alamogordo Atomic Test (16 July), on a Japanese city to force an expedient surrender.

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Date: 14 Aug 1945

Significance:Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II.
Summary:As Allied offensives overwhelmed Germany, German forces cut off in Italy, Berlin, the Netherlands, northwest Germany, Denmark and the fortress city of Breslau surrendered separately.

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Date : 20 Nov 1945
Significance:As Allied offensives overwhelmed Germany, German forces cut off in Italy, Berlin, the Netherlands, northwest Germany, Denmark and the fortress city of Breslau surrendered separately.An underlying premise of the Atlantic Charter was international cooperation to prevent wars of aggression and crimes against humanity.Mechanism for enforcement seemed necessary.In 1945 the major Allied powers of World War II began a series of military tribunals to prosecute prominent member of the military, political and economic leadership of defeated Nazi Germany.