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Children had to evacuate due to the bombing by Germany.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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Rationing begins in Britain.
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Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.
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Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.
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France surrenders to Germany.
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First units of German'Africa Korps arrive in North Africa
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Tobruk in north Africa falls to the British and Australians.
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British forces advance into Italian Somaliland in the east
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German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli,North Africa
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Penicillin was not invented during the war, but it was first mass produced during the war
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First thousand-bomber British air raid (against Cologne).
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First Battle of El Alamein.
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First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven).
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Battle of Atlantic climaxes with 27 merchant ships sunk by German U-boats.
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- First attack toward Cassino, Italy.
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Soviet troops begin an offensive on the Belorussian front; First major daylight bombing raid on Berlin by the Allies.
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Hitler wanted to make Germany the most powerful empire in the world.
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Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland.
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Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids.
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Hermann Göring commits suicide two hours before his scheduled execution.
