Timeline of World War II: Quick Facts

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A Canadian soldier runs alongside a tank moving through a rubble-strewn street lined with heavily damaged buildings in Ortona, Italy, during World War II.

Hitler triumphant in Poland

Dunkirk evacuation

Supermarine Spitfire

Battle of Britain; the Blitz

Sink the Bismarck

Operation Barbarossa

Pearl Harbor attack

Bataan Death March

B-25 during the Doolittle Raid

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