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| Finnish-Soviet war starts |
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| Germany invades Norway and Denmark |
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| Germany launches Fall Gelb, the offensive in the West |
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| Churchill becomes PM of Britain |
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| Dunkirk evacuation starts |
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| France signs armistice with Germany |
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| Hitler postpones operation SEALION indefinitely |
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| Tripartite Pact between Germs, Japs, and Italy |
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| British forces begin evacuating Greece |
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| German airborne forces land on Crete |
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| Germany invades USSR (BARBAROSSA) |
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| Jap assets in US frozen, blocking all shipments including oil |
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| Placentia Bay conference: Atlantic Charter by FDR, Churchill |
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| Germans commence Operation TYPHOON, aimed at Moscow |
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| Red Army counter-offensive in front of Moscow starts |
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Prince of Wales sunk off Malaysia; Japs invade Philippines
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| Germany, Italy declare war on USA |
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| Haiti declares war on Bulgaria |
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| UN Declaration signed by China, UK, USA, USSR |
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| Internment of Japanese-Americans begins on US West Coast |
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| Battle of the Coral Sea starts |
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| First RAF thousand-bomber raid on Germany |
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| Germans launch offensive (BLUE) into Soviet Caucasus |
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| US troops land on Guadalcanal |
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| Start of final battle at El Alamein |
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| Operation TORCH begins: Allied landing in northwest Africa |
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| Eighth USAAF mounts its first rain on Germany (Wilhelmshaven) |
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| German forces capitulate at Stalingrad |
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| Axis forces capitulate in N. Africa |
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| U-boats withdrawn from North Atlantic |
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| Tank battle of Kursk begins |
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| Allied invasion of Sicilly |
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| Mussolini deposed, arrested |
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| Italy surrenders; Germans occupy two-thirds of Italian territory |
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| Tehran conference of Big 3 starts |
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| First controlled nuclear chain reaction started in Chi-town |
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| D-Day: Operation OVERLORD into Normandy |
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| Start of V-1 bombardment against England |
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| Strategic air offensive against Japan begins |
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| Bretton Woods conference starts |
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| Hitler assassination attempt fails |
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| First V-2 rocket raids against Britain start |
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| Operation MARKET GARDEN launched |
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| Dumbarton Oaks conference starts |
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| Warsaw Uprising crushed by Germans while Red Army stands by |
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| MacArthur returns to Philippines |
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| Battle of Leyte Gulf Begins |
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| Germans launch Battle of the Bulge |
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| Yalta conference between Big 3 starts |
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| US forces land on Iwo Jima |
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| US Third Army crosses Rhine at Remagen |
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| US forces land on Okinawa |
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| FDR dies, Truman becomes Prez |
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| Soviet and US troops meet at Torgau |
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| San Fran conference starts, launching UN Org. |
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| Mussolini shot by partisans |
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| V-E Day: German unconditional surrendor |
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| Italy declares war on Japan |
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| Potsdam conference begins |
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| Churchill defeated in British elections; Attlee becomes PM |
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| USSR declares war on Japan, invades Manchukuo |
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| Hirohito announces Japan's unconditional surrendor |
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