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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.