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  • August 23: Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.
  • September 1: Germany invades Poland, starting World War II.
  • September 3: Britain and France declare war on Germany.
  • September: Battle of the Atlantic begins.


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  • May: Auschwitz is established.
  • May 10: Germany invades France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
  • May 26: Evacuation begins of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France.
  • June 10: Italy declares war on France and Great Britain.
  • June 22: France surrenders to Germany.
  • July 10: Battle of Britain begins.
  • September 16: The United States begins its first peacetime draft.

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  • March 11: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill.
  • May 24: The British ship Hood is sunk by Germany's Bismarck.
  • May 27: The Bismarck is sunk.
  • June 22: Germany invades the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa).
  • August 9: Atlantic Conference begins.
  • September 8: Siege of Leningrad begins.
  • December 7: The Japanese launch a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
  • December 11: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States; then the United States declares war on Germany and Italy.

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  • January 20: The Wannsee Conference
  • February 19: Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066, which allows the internment of Japanese Americans.
  • April 18: The Doolittle Raid on Japan
  • June 3: The Battle of Midway begins.
  • July 1: First Battle of El Alamein begins.
  • July 6: Anne Frank and her family go into hiding.
  • August 2: Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
  • August 21: Battle of Stalingrad begins.
  • October 23: Second Battle of El Alamein begins.
  • November 8: The Allies invade North Africa (Operation Torch)

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  • January 14: Casablanca Conference begins.
  • February 2: The Germans surrender at Stalingrad, Soviet Union.
  • April 19: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins.
  • July 5: Battle of Kursk begins.
  • July 25: Mussolini resigns.
  • September 3: Italy surrenders.
  • November 28: Tehran Conference begins

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  • January 27: After 900 days, the Siege of Leningrad is finally over.2
  • June 6: D-Day
  • June 19: Battle of the Philippine Sea
  • July 20: Assassination attempt against Hitler fails.
  • August 4: Anne Frank and her family are discovered and arrested.
  • August 25: The Allies liberate Paris.
  • October 23: Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
  • December 16: Battle of the Bulge begins.

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  • February 13: Allies begin bombing Dresden.
  • February 19: Battle of Iwo Jima begins.
  • April 1: Battle of Okinawa.
  • April 12: Franklin D. Roosevelt dies.
  • April 16: Battle of Berlin begins.
  • April 28: Mussolini is hanged by Italian partisans.
  • April 30: Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
  • May 7: Germany signs an unconditional surrender.
  • July 17: Potsdam Conference begins.
  • August 6: The United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
  • August 9: The United States drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.

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