WWI ends, November 11 1918

Great depression begins 1929

Dictators rise in Italy China and Japan (1930s)

Nuremberg Laws & Kristallnacht September 1935

Germany begins expanding 1935

Munich agreement September 30 1938

non aggression pact with USSR 1939

Great depression ends 1939

Germany invades Poland late 1939

allies declare war, right after Poland is invaded 1939

Germany invades France June-July 1940

Battle of Britain October 1940

Russia is invaded June to December 1941

Japan expands 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor December 7 1941

US enters war after Pearl Harbor 1941

Fighting begins in Pacific 1941

Major Battles begin in Europe 1940

Potsdam declaration jul 1945

Holocaust Begins 1939

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fighting continues 1942

Fighting continues 1943

fighting continues 1944

Germany surrenders 1945

holocaust ends 1945

Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear attacks, August 1945

Japan surrenders September 1945

all fighting ceases, the war is over September 1945

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