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* June 22: Operation Barbarossa is launched. German and Axis units begin their attacks all across the western border of the USSR, opening the Eastern Front of the Second World War.
 
* December 7: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor destroying many U.S. naval ships. The US declares War withon Japan.
* December 11: In Accordance with the Tripartite Pact, Italy and Germany declare war on the US.
* December 25: Moscow falls to the Germans, the Politburo shifts further east.
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* July 4: A German bomber drops an atomic bomb on Pearl Harbor, wiping out the US Pacific Fleet.
* Late August: President Dewey signs the Akagi Accords that both surrenders the US's Pacific territories to the Japanese and the signing of a non-aggression pact with the Germans, formally ending the Second World War.
* October: General Alvaro Eduardo Avalos leads a coup backed by pro-alliesAllied politicians to overthrow the Pro-Axis government established in 1943. Juan Peron is arrested for his role in that government.
* Unknown: Burma signs the Shonan Agreement formally becoming an independent nation.
* Unknown: The Philippine Communist Party begins its guerilla campaign against the Japanese Occupation.
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* September: The Caribbean Legion launches a military expedition from Cayo Confites, Cuba to the Dominican Republic, but it fails. In response, the Dominican Republic bombs several locations in Cuba.
* Unknown: The political awakening in Afghanistan caused by Shah Mahmud Khan 's reforms see the rise of the Wesh Dzalmian as the main force of progressivism in the country
* Unknown: Jaramogi Oginga Odinga founds Luo Thrift and Trading Corporation in Kenya to economically uplifteduplift the Luo people
* Unknown: The Battle of Chongqing ends with a Japanese victory, ending the Japanese invasion of China and the Second World War in Asia.
* Unknown: A failed Nationalist revolt in Madagascar occurs, known as the Malagasy Uprising
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=== 1948 ===
 
* October 27: Manuel A. Odría and the PeruviaPeruvian military launches a coup, ending the presidency of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero for refusing to ban the left-wing APRA.
* November: The [[1948 United States presidential election|1948 US Presidential Elections]] sees General Dwight D. Eisenhower defeat Republican nominee Robert Taft.
 
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* Unknown: Members of the Wesh Dzalmian are elected to the Afghan Wolesi Jirga
* Unkown: The Estado Novo regime in Brazil ends with a military coup caused Vargas'safter menan attemptingassassination toattempt assassinateon a well-known anti-Vargas journalist. Shortly after this, a new Brazilian Constitution is written and ratified
* Unknown: Luo Thrift and Trading Corporation is shut down by the SS
* Unknown: Prime Minister Son Ngoc Thanh declares the formation of the Republic of Kampuchea
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* March 26: Dudley Shelton Senanayake succeeds his father as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
* Unknown: The Nationalist faction of the Burmese military coups the Burmese government
* Unknown: Turkish forces seizesseize control of Iraqi Kurdistan
* UnknownLUnknown: Antonescu announces the return of party politics in Romania
 
=== 1953 ===
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* November 11: A group of military officers launches a counter-coup to prevent an attempt by UDN politicians to prevent Brazilian president-elect Juscelino Kubitschek from taking office.
* Unknown: The Alpine Crisis begins as Germany demands that Switzerland becomes a German protectorate or face invasion. In response, Italy mobilizes its forces to defend the Swiss.
 
=== 1956 ===
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* April: Ion Antonescu dies of organ failure as a result of neurosyphilis, ending his reign as Conductor of Romania.
* July: Manuel Prado Ugarteche become president of Peru again following the previous month's election
* Late: A general uprising led by David Stirling and Bill Alexander against the BPP controlled British government begins and is later crushed. The uprising's occurenceoccurrence leads to the resignation of A.K Chesterton as Prime Minister. Barry Domvile succeeds him.
* Unknown: Juan Peron is overthrown by a conspiracy between the Argentine military and various oppositional political groups led by Eduardo Lonardi who places a temporary junta in power. This new government also issues a decree that bans any pro-Peronist images and depictions.
* Unknown: A ceasefire ends the Columbian Civil War, but the country is still divided between the three main factions of the civil war
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* Unknown: The Dominican Government launches a nation-wide crackdown on dissent out of fear of them being inspired by the revolution in Cuba
* Unknown: In response to the military coup in Iraq, the Triumvirate launches an invasion. However the Iraqi military is able to hold them off and leads to a treaty being signed between Iraq and Italy.
* Unknown: Prince Phetsarath Rattanavongsa endends his tenure as prime minister of Laos.
* Unknown: The AFRSR attempts to topple the Japanese backbacked Second Philippine Republic in Manila, kickstarting the 1959 Philippine War
* Unknown: [[Matsuzawa Takuji]] begins to head Yasuda's operations in [[Guangdong]]
 
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