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March 9-12, 1938

German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.

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September 1, 1939

German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air.

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France & Great Britain declare war on Germany 

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France & Great Britain declare war on Germany 

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September 3, 1939

In response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.

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May 26 to June 4, 1940

338,000 British Forces  and other Allied troops were evacuated from Dunkirk to England as German forces closed in on them.

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June 14, 1940

After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division.

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September 1940 - May 1941

300 German bombers raid London, in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.

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1941 and 1945.

mass murder of millions of European Jews as well as millions of others, including Romani people, the intellectually disabled, dissidents and homosexuals by the German Nazi regime

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June 22, 1941

Germany launched an invasion on the soviet union but lost to the nazi party

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December 7, 1941

Japan bombed a US naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii damaging 20 ships and over 300 planes

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June 3-6, 1942

The Battle of Midway was a battle between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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February 19, 1945

A military campaign between the U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945

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June 6, 1944

On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of northern France

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August 1942 February 1943

The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II

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April 1, 1945-June 22, 1945

the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest.The Navy’s Fifth Fleet and more than 180,000 U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps troops descended on the Pacific island of Okinawa for a final push towards Japan.

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April 30, 1945

holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.

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May 8, 1945

Great Britain and the USA celebrate this day as the day when German troops laid down their weapons and surrendered

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Dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

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Dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

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August 6, 1945

during World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima killing an estimated 135,000 people

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August 9, 1945

during World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the second atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki killing an estimated 80,000 people

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August 14, 1945

On V-J day it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II.

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1945-1949

Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany