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Vladek gets drafted into the Polish Reserves.
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Germany invades Poland.
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Vladek is captured by Nazis after a shootout in which he killed a Nazi soldier.
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Warsaw surrendered to the Allies.
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Vladek is able to escape the POW cmap and return home to Anja.
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Noway surrenders to Germany after fighting for two months.
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Italy joins the Axis powers.
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Air raid that lasted almost four months over Britain.
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Eliezer Wiesel asks Moishe the Beadle to teach him Kabbalah because his father wouldn't help him find a teacher.
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Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria invade Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia surrenders after 11 days.
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Japan sent suicide pilots to bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It destroyed the largest Naval Base in the US and killed many.
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The day after Japan bombed the Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the US declared war on Japan and entered WWII.
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Forced Axis troops to retreat across Libya and Tunisia.
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Sixth Army was forbidden to retreat during the counterattack made my the Soviet army. So they surrendered.
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Axis surrendered to Allies, which ended the war campaign in North Africa.
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Bodoglio surrenders and steps out of the war.
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Vladek and Anja are sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis because they are Polish Jews.
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In May of 1944, the Jews in Sighet were seperated into groups. Each group was then transported to Auschwitz in a cattle trailer.
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Eliezer and others arrive at Auschwitz and see the crematoriums for the first time. Then Elie gets seperated from his mother and little sister for forever.
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Allies liberate France, Belgium, Netherlands from Germany.
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Home Army tried to liberate Warsaw, but then surrendered to Germany after a little over a month of battle.
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German's final offensive in the west is launched to try to recapture Belgium and split Allied forces. The Germans retreat on January 1, 1945.
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Elie and his father along with many get transfered from Auschwitz to Buchenwald. Shortly after arriving, Elie's father dies of dysentery.
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Vladek and other prisoners march from Auschwitz to Dachau.
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Elie Wiesel is liberated from the concentration camps after a year. The liberation came shortly after his father died.
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Hitler commits suicide by shooting himself in the head while in his bunker. His wife Eva Braun commited suicide alongside him by consuming cyanide.
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The US drops first of two atomic bombs on a major Japanese city.
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US drops the second of two atomic bombs on another major Japanese city.
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Japan surrenders unconditionally to the US five fays after the second atomic bomb, ending WWII in the Pacific.
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Axis powers surrender unconditionally to the Allies.
