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date: 01 Sep 1939
Summary:  the Germans invaded Poland with 53 divisions and 1,600 aircraft on 1 September. Great Britain and France declared war on 3 September, and other Commonwealth nations soon followed.
Significant: the European countries start attacks Poland and sweeping aside negligible resistance to link up with the Germans at Brest Litovsk and partition Poland as agreed

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date: 05 Jun 1940
Summary: but German air attacks delayed French redeployments while the Germans raced ahead with their own. After a week of intense fighting, powerful German formations broke through west and east of Paris.
Significant: France surrendered on 22 June. The Germans occupied the north and west of the country, and established the puppet Vichy government in the south and east.

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date: 17 Dec 1940
Summary: In September 1940 the United States passed its first peacetime Selective Service Act. It also gave Britain and Canada fifty destroyers and ten Coast Guard cutters in return for leases on selected bases in the Western Hemisphere. It ultimately accounted for $51 Billion ($759 Billion at 2008 prices) in aid to the Allies before terminating on 2 September 1945.
Significant: In December President Roosevelt proposed a Lend-Lease Bill, whereby equipment could theoretically be returned and accounts settled later – on permissive terms.

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date: 22 Jun 1941
Summary: On 22 June 1941 the Germans attacked with a massive force, the equivalent of over 160 divisions.The Soviets initially defended with an equivalent of over 160 divisions, but were poorly positioned and caught by surprise.
Significant: the German attacks the soviet union and German air strikes destroyed over 1200 Soviet aircraft on the first day.

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date: 06 Sep 1941
Summary: Hitler had long espoused hatred of Jews, His regime persecuted German Jews from the beginning, subjecting them to property confiscation, imprisonment, and physical attack.
Significant: The Nazis walled Polish Jews into urban ghettos, and sustained campaigns of extortion, deportation and murder. On 6 September 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
summary: In July 1941 the United States and the Allies responded to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China by freezing assets and cancelling oil deals, effectively cutting off seventy-five percent of Japan’s trade and ninety percent of its oil.
Significance: Japan attack the aircraft of the American, The United States declared war on Japan on 8 December.

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date:07 Dec 1941
Summary:forcing the Japanese to call off their offensive on 8 February for several weeks while they awaited additional troops and supplies. Elsewhere in the Philippine Islands the Japanese seized key facilities.
Significant: the Japanese attacks Philippine, the end  Filipino troops by and large melted away into the mountains.

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date: 04 Jun 1942
Summary: a pivotal turning point in World War II,  After their successful attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese offensives ranged widely through the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Significant: the turning point of ww2, the United States attacked the Japanese carriers by air while the Japanese planes were bombing Midway

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date: 04 Jul 1942
Summary : China’s poorly equipped army was outclassed by the modernized Japanese, and suffered from political .discord as well.The Chinese held and, reinforced by newly equipped units, drove the Japanese back.
Significant: apan had been at war in China since 1931.theJapanese were now on the defensive as their situation deteriorated in this and other theaters.The Japanese were now on the defensive as their situation deteriorated in this and other theaters.

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date: 17 Sep 1942
Summary: On 17 September Colonel (soon Brigadier General) Leslie R. Groves was given command of the Manhattan Engineering District and empowered to direct all efforts to build an atomic bomb.Ultimately the project achieved the first man-made nuclear explosion at Alamogordo, New Mexico on 16 July, 1945.
Significant: The United States Government mobilized scientists and engineers to assist the war effort,develop a weapon relying upon atomic fission

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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
Summary: . In 1943 the balance tipped in favor of the Allies. Increasingly effective Allied antisubmarine forces sank 41 of 240 German U-Boats in May of that year.On 22 May German Admiral Karl Donitz ordered U-Boats in the North Atlantic to break off operations to avoid further catastrophic losses.
Significant: Increasingly effective Allied antisubmarine forces sank 41 of 240 German U-Boats in May of that year.

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date: 06 Jun 1944
Summary: Great Britain and the United States committed to an invasion through France, Operation OVERLORD, to cooperate with the Soviet Union in achieving that purpose, On the night of 5-6 June American and British paratroopers landed in Normandy to secure egress from the beachheads, disrupt German counterattacks, and guard the flanks of selected beaches.
Significant: After further fierce fighting the Allies linked up the several beaches and pushed inland.here German armored units massed for counterattacks that heavily attrited both sides

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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

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date: 07 May 1945
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.
Significant: German surrender,The surrender was to be effective 2301 hours on 8 May.

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date: 06 Aug 1945
Summary: 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.At 0815 hours on 6 August the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, accompanied by two other B-29s of the 509th Composite Group, dropped a gun-type fission U-235 bomb on Hiroshima.
Significant: The city destroyed by the bombs, from the 509th Composite Group dropped an implosion-type plutonium 239 bomb over Nagasaki at 1101 hours on 9 August. Again the effects were devastating.

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date: 14 Aug 1945
Summary: Shortly thereafter President Harry S. Truman ordered the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (6 August), and Joseph Stalin abandoned his Neutrality Pact with Japan and launched the Soviet Manchurian Offensive (9-22 August). On 9 August the Americans dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, and on 10 August Japanese Emperor Hirohito committed decisively to the faction seeking immediate peace.
Significant: the Americans drop the bombs, and Japan surrender.

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date: 20 Nov 1945
Summary:  In 1945 the major Allied powers of World War II began a series of military tribunals to prosecute prominent members of the military, political and economic leadership of defeated Nazi Germany.  on October 1, 1946. Eleven of the defendants were sentenced to death. Three were acquitted. Three received life sentences. The remainder received sentences ranging from ten to twenty years in prison.
Significant: he first trial (the Trials of the Major War Criminals) began at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany (considered the symbolic birthplace of the Nazi Party) on November 20th 1945.