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1939
First flight of the B-24 bomber takes place.
1940
President Roosevelt quoted saying, “the Axis not merely admits, but proclaims that there can be no ultimate peace between their philosophy of government and our philosophy of government.” Read more
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1939
First Canadian troops arrive in Britain.
1940
Hitler issues a definitive directive that Operation Barbarossa would begin on May 15, 1941; however, it would not actually begin until 6/22/1941. Read more
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1941
Prince of Wales and Repulse are sunk north of Singapore. Germany and Italy declare war on U.S. Japanese troops enter Burma. Japanese forces land in Penang and Gurun, on the Malaya Peninsula.
1942
Hitler appoints Anton Mussert as the leader of the Nederlands. Read more
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1941
Pearl Harbor: Japan attacks U.S. First Canadian troops arrive in Britain. U.S. declares war on Germany and Allies (not USSR) declare war on Japan.
1942
The first nuclear reactor goes critical at the University of Chicago under the leadership and design of Enrico Fermi. Read more
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1939
The first barricades are erected around the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland.
1940
Greece repels the Italian invasion and invades Albania, an Italian colony. Nazi attacks on Coventry. Romania enters the war with the Axis powers. Read more
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1918 – WWI ends.
1938 – Kristallnacht – “The Night of Broken Glass.” German citizens loot and burn 7000+ Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues. 30,000 Jews are arrested and sent to Concentration Camps.
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1923 – Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch: a failed attempt at revolution that occurred between the evening of 8 November and the early afternoon of 9 November 1923, when Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler…
