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| Nov 11, 1918 - World War One ends with German defeat. | Sept 14, 1930 - Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany. | Jan 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. | May 10, 1940 - Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister. | June 22, 1941 - Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins. | Dec 5, 1941 - German attack on Moscow is abandoned. | Dec 7, 1941 - Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor | Dec 8, 1941 - States and Britain declare war on Japan. | Dec 11, 1941 - Germany declares war on the United States. | Feb 2, 1943 - Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies. | May 13, 1943 - German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa | July 9/10, 1943 - Allies land in Sicily. | June 6, 1944 - D-Day landings. | Oct 11, 1944 - U.S. air raids against Okinawa. | Dec 16-27, 1944 - Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes. | April 30, 1945 - Adolf Hitler commits suicide. | May 2, 1945 - German troops in Italy surrender. | Aug 6, 1945 - First Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima from a B-29 flown by Col. Paul Tibbets. | Aug 9, 1945 - Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan. | Sept 2, 1945 - Formal Japanese surrender ceremony on board the MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay as 1000 carrier-based planes fly overhead; President Truman declares VJ Day. |
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| May 13, 1943 - German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa |
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May 13, 1943, brought about the surrender of Axis troops in North Africa. The Italian and German armies were weakened by El Alamein. All resistance ended with a massive surrender by Germany and Italy. An estimated 240,000 prisoners were taken by the Allied troops.
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