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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