WWII TIMELINE
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Event
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Date
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Event
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Oct. 24, 1922
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Mussolini appointed Premier by King Victor Emmanuel III
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Jan. 20, 1942
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Nazis coordinate "Final Solution" efforts at Wannsee Conference
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Mar. 23, 1933
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Enabling Act passed by Reichstag; Hitler assumes dictatoral power.
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June 4, 1942
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Japanese Navy resoundingly defeated at Battle of Midway
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Oct. 25, 1936
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Rome-Berlin "Axis" alliance formed.
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Nov. 8, 1942
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Allied invasion of North Africa begins in "Operation Torch"
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Sept. 1, 1939
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Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Apr. 19, 1943
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S.S. begins "liquidation" of the Warsaw ghetto
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June 14, 1940
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Nazis Take Paris
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May 13, 1943
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Remaining Axis troops in North Africa surrender to Allies
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July 10, 1940
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Battle of Britain Begins
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Nov. 29, 1943
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"Big Three" of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill meet at Tehran
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Sept. 27, 1940
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Tripartite alliance formed between Germany, Italy and Japan
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June 6, 1944
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D-Day: invasion of Europe begins with Allied landings at Normandy
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Dec. 9-10, 1940
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British counter-attack begins against Italian Army in North Africa
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June 19, 1944
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"Marianas Turkey Shoot" results in destruction of over 200 Japanese Aircraft
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Mar. 11, 1941
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Lend-Lease Act signed by Roosevelt |
Oct. 2, 1944
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Allies advance into Germany
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June 22, 1941
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Hitler launches operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union
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Oct. 23, 1944
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U.S. naval forces destroy remnants of Japanese Navy at the Battle of Leyete Gulf, largest naval engagement in history
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July 31, 1941
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Planning begins for "Final Solution"
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Dec. 16, 1944
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German Army launches "Battle of the Bulge" offensive on the Western Front
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Dec. 7, 1941
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Japanese attack naval base at Pearl Harbor
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Feb. 19, 1945
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American forces land on Iwo Jima
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Dec. 8, 1941
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Roosevelt gives "Day of Infamy" speech; U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan
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May 8, 1945
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Victory in Europe Day
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Dec. 11, 1941
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Germany Declares war on the United States
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Aug. 6, 1945
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First Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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Jan. 1942
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Mass Gassing of Jews begins at Auschwitz
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Aug. 15, 1945
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Victory over Japan Day
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Sept. 2, 1945
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Japanese delegation signs instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay
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