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TIMELINE
19141918 | World War I occurs between the Allied powers and Central powers. More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians die. |
1919 | The Treaty of Versailles determines penalties Germany must pay for its actions in World War I. |
1925 | Benito Mussolini becomes the fascist dictator of Italy. |
1926 | Emperor Hirohito becomes the 124th emperor of Japan. |
1928 | Joseph Stalin becomes the communist dictator of Russia. |
1931 | Japan invades China. |
19331934 | Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor and president of Germany. |
1938 | Germany adds Austria to its territories and occupies Czechoslovakia. |
September 1939 | Germany invades Poland. Great Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canadamost of the Allied powersdeclare war on Germany. World War II begins. |
April 1940 | The German conquest of Western Europe beginsDenmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France all fall. |
June 1940 | Germany occupies Paris, France. |
JulyOctober 1940 | The Battle of Britain occurs, when Britain defends itself against Germanys powerful Luftwaffe. |
September 1940 | Italy invades Egypt. |
February 1941 | Germany sends troops to Egypt to support their Italian allies. |
June 1941 | Germany invades Russia. |
December 1941 | Japan bombs the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The United States declares war against Japan the next day. The rest of the Axis powersGermany, Italy, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgariadeclare war on the United States. |
February 1942 | Many Japanese Americans are sent to concentration camps in the United States. |
May 1943 | German and Italian troops surrender to the Allies in North Africa. |
July 1943 | Benito Mussolini is deposed. |
September 1943 | Italy surrenders to the Allies. Fighting continues in Italy between the Allies and the Germans. |
June 1944 | More than 160,000 Allied troops invade the coast of Normandy, France, on D-Day. |
August 1944 | The Allies liberate Paris. |
April 1945 | Benito Mussolini is executed by Italian partisans. Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin, Germany. |
May 1945 | Germany surrenders. |
June 1945 | The United Nations charter is adopted and signed. |
August 1945 | The United States drops atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. |
September 1945 | Japan signs terms of surrender aboard the USS Missouri . |
October 1945 | The United Nations begins operations in New York City. |
1947 | The United Nations partitions Palestine between Jews and Arab Palestinians. |
1948 | Israel becomes an independent country. |
1949 | The Soviets oversee the creation of communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany). In the west, the democratic Federal Republic of Germany is created. Berlin is divided between the two. |
1961 | The Berlin Wall goes up between East and West Berlin, between the Soviet and Western sectors of the city. |
October 1989 | The Berlin Wall begins to come down. East Germans can once again cross freely into West Germany. |
1990 | Germany becomes a unified country. |
1993 | The European Union is formed. |
Introduction
What Was the Second World War?
Why were there so many civilian deaths during World War II?
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