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| 1944 August 1 |
| | Members of the Polish resistance rise against the Germans in Warsaw, in a conflict lasting two months and bringing massive casualties | |
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| 1944 August 4 |
| | The hiding place in Amsterdam of Anne Frank and her family is discovered by the Gestapo | |
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| 1944 August 15 |
| | The Seventh US army, commanded by Alexander Patch, opens another front with a landing on the French Riviera | |
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| 1944 August 19 |
| | George Patton gets a division of his Third US Army across the Seine southeast of Paris | |
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| 1944 August 19 |
| | Barricades are built in the streets as Parisians stage an impromptu uprising against the Germans | |
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| 1944 August 24 |
| | Tanks of the Second French Armoured Division are the first of the Allies to enter and liberate Paris | |
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| 1944 August 24 |
| | Romania changes sides to fight with the Red Army against Germany | |
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| 1944 August 26 |
| | General de Gaulle walks down the Champs Elysées, and then on to Notre Dame, to massive aclaim | |
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| 1944 September |
| | Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Budapest, saves thousands of Jews from extermination | |
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| 1944 September 3 |
| | British forces liberate Brussels and on the next day reach Antwerp | |
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| 1944 September 8 |
| | The first V-2 rocket lands on London, killing three people in Chiswick | |
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| 1944 September 8 |
| | The first of many thousands of war brides arrive in Canada, mainly from Great Britain | |
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| 1944 September 8 |
| | Bulgaria changes to the Allied side and Communists take control in Sofia | |
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| 1944 September 20 |
| | Douglas MacArthur lands US troops on Leyte as the first step in recovering the Philippines | |
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| 1944 September 25 |
| | 7500 British troops, trapped on the far side of the Rhine at Arnhem, are captured by the Germans | |
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| 1944 October 7 |
| | Delegates from 39 nations meet at Dumbarton Oaks, near Washington DC, to plan the future United Nations | |
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| 1944 October 11 |
| | Hungary signs an armistice with the USSR | |
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| 1944 October 18 |
| | Athens is liberated and the Greek government-in-exile returns, with George Papandreou at its head | |
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| 1944 October 25 |
| | Japanese pilots fly the first of World War II's suicide or kamikaze missions | |
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| 1944 October 25 |
| | Victory over Japan in a massive 2-day battle at Leyte Gulf assures US recovery of Philippines | |
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| 1944 November |
| | Tito and his partisans, with Soviet assistance, liberate Belgrade | |
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| 1944 November 7 |
| | President Roosevelt, although seriously ill, is elected for a fourth term with Harry S. Truman as his vice-president | |
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| 1944 November 24 |
| | American B-29 bombers take off from the newly captured Saipan on the long trip to bomb Tokyo | |
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| 1944 November 28 |
| | Allied bombs destroy the strategic bridge in Thailand over the River Kwai, built by the Japanese using prisoners of war as slave labour | |
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| 1944 December 3 |
| | Civil war breaks out in Greece between rival groups of partisans resisting demobilization | |
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| 1944 December 18 |
| | The Germans stage a counter-attack in the Ardennes region before being pushed back in the Battle of the Bulge | |
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| 1944 December 21 |
| | With Budapest still in German hands, the Soviets set up a provisional Hungarian government, at Debrecen | |
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| 1944 December 26 |
| | The Soviet army surrounds the Hungarian capital, Budapest | |
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| 1945 January |
| | Allied bombing of Berlin forces Hitler to take refuge in his underground bunker | |
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