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September 1 1939
Germans invaded Poland with 53 divisions and 1,600 aircraft on 1 September. Combined arms attacks integrating tanks, artillery, infantry and air strikes proved particularly effective

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Badges that the Germas forced the Jewish to wear during the war concentration camps, cities etc.

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5 June 1940
After a week of intense fighting, powerful German formations broke through west and east of Paris. During the same period, the Germans outflanked the formidable French Maginot Line defenses.

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17 December 1940
Alarmed by Axis advances in Europe and Asia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt positioned the United States to support the Allies. He overcame isolationalist sentiment and a series of Neutrality Acts from the 1930s as he did so.

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22 June 1941
In the middle of 1940 Hitler directed his generals to plan and prepare for an invasion. On 22 June 1941 the Germans attacked with a massive force, the equivalent of over 160 divisions

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7 December 1941
. At 0755 local time on 7 December, a Sunday, the first of two waves of Japanese planes attacked. Effects were devastating. Eighteen ships, including seven of eight battleships, were sunk or severely damaged. Of American aircraft 347 of 402 were destroyed or damaged, most on the ground.

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After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Japan attacked American airfields in the Philippines and landed their troops in the islands. The commander of the Americans and Filipinos defending the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur, retreated to the Bataan Peninsula and surrendered 75,000 men. The surrendered troops were forced to march to the prison camp 90 miles away. Thousands died on the way of starvation, disease and murder. Approximately 21,000 men died on the forced march. Douglas McArthur will return in 1945 to liberate the Philippines and the surviving prisoners of war.

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17 September 1942
Of numerous projects to harness scientific knowledge, none was more elaborate or consequential than the so-called “Manhattan Project” to build an atomic bomb.

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4 June 1942
American advisors to Chiang debated whether to prioritize using these supplies to build up Chinese armies for ground offensives or to sustain American air offensives from Chinese airfields against Japanese forces, supply lines and home islands.

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7 June 1942
s a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral

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22 May 1943
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.

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6 June 1944
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

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7 May 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.

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6 August 1945
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. The city was instantly devastated; about 70,000 died immediately and another 70,000 died within the year from injuries, burns and radiation.

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14 August 1945
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. Over the next several days diplomatic traffic attempted to resolve the future status of the Emperor,

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20 November 1945
The trial was held before an International Military Tribunal that included judges from the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and France.

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President FDR dies during 4th term; Vice-President Truman becomes President of the U.S. (April 12, 1945)