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Question		Answer
September 1, 1939 start learning		Hitler invaded Poland; France and Britain declared war
September 29, 1939 start learning		Soviets and Nazis divided up Poland
December 14, 1939 start learning		Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations
June 9, 1940 start learning		Germany takes control of Norway and Denmark
June 22, 1940 start learning		Germany took over a big part of western Europe
May 30, 1940 start learning		Churchill lead the British government
June 10, 1940 start learning		Italy declared war on Britain and France
July 10, 1940 start learning		Battle of Britain begins (German air attacks on Great Britain)
July 23, 1940 start learning		Soviets take Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
September 22, 1940 start learning		Germany, Japan and Italy signed the Tripartite Pact
October 7, 1940 start learning		Nazis entered Romania
October 28, 1940 start learning		Italy invaded Greece
Novermber 5, 1940 start learning		Roosevelt was re-elected as the president of the U.S.
June 22, 1941 start learning		Operation Barbarossa - 3 million German soldiers were sent into Russia
December 7, 1941 start learning		The Japanese attacked the US fleet at Pearl Harbour
December 8, 1941 start learning		U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan
June 4, 1942 start learning		The Battle of Midway - the US Navy defeated the Japanese navy
August 23, 1942 - February 2, 1943 start learning		Battle of Stalingrad - Russians won
May 12, 1943 start learning		Axis surrendered in North Africa
September 3, 1943 start learning		Italy surrendered, Germany helped Mussolini set up a government in the north of Italy
November 28 - December 1, 1943 start learning		Tehran Conference - Stalin, Roosevelt and Stalin met to discuss further plans and post-war settlements
June 6, 1944 start learning		Allied forces pushed Germans back from France
December 16 - January 25, 1945 start learning		Battle of the Bulge - Germany lost to Alies
March 22, 1945 start learning		The US Third Army crosses the Rhine River while the Soviet Army was approaching from the East
April 12, 1945 start learning		Roosevelt dies, Harry Truman becomes the president
April 1, 1945 start learning		Russians reached Berlin
April 28, 1945 start learning		Italian partisans executed Mussolini
April 30, 1945 start learning		Hitler committed suicide
May 7, 1945 start learning		Germany surrendered
August 6, 1945 start learning		The U.S. dropped the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 start learning		The U.S. dropped another bomb in Nagasaki
September 2, 1945 start learning		Japan surrendered

Second World War - short timeline

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