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Japan attacks China
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Germany leaves the League of Nations
As a snub to the New Worls Order -
Italy is penalized
Because of the invasion of Ethiopia -
Period: to
Second Italo–Ethiopian War
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The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed
Japan signs it with Germany against the URSS. -
The Rome-Berlin Axis is formalized
There's a cooperation between Hitler and Mussolini -
Period: to
Spanish Civil War
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Germany invades Austria
They annexed with Sudetenland. -
Berlin Conference
Great Britain, France and Italy agreed to the invasion of Sudetenland if Hitler respected the rest of Czechoslovakia. -
Germany invades Poland
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Germany signs a non-agression pact with the URSS
So they could guarantee their neutrality.
They also acorded to invade Poland and divide it. -
Hitler invades the rest of Czechoslovakia
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Period: to
Blitzkrieg
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Period: to
Second World War
Some people considere it started the 1st of september, when Germany invaded Poland but officially the war was declared on the 3rd of september. -
Denmark and Norway are conquered by Germany
To protect shipments of iron ore from Sweden beacuse the allies were trying to cut them off. -
Germany invades France and the Netherlands
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Battle of Britain
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Italy attacks Greece
They try to invade Greece but failed. -
Operation Barbarossa
Germany tries to invade the URSS -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
The United States, Japan and the URSS enter in the war -
Period: to
Holocaust
It was a genocide of Jewsand other groups such as Slavs, the Roma, the "incurably sick", political and religious dissenters like communists and Jehovah's Witnesses, and gay men. -
Alies are defeated by Japan
In Singapur and Java -
German offensive is restrained in El-'Alamein
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Period: to
Firsts defeats of the Axis
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First big loss of Germany
In the battle of Stalingrad. -
Troops disembark in Sicilia
Troops from Great Britain and the USA disembarked in Sicilia. -
Normandy landings
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Rome is occupied by the Alies
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German decline
April 26th: Soviet troops arrive to Berlin.
April 28th: Mussolini is captured and executed.
April 30th: Hitler commits suicide.
May 2nd: Berlin surrenders.
May 7th and 8th: the Third Reich signs the unconditional surrender. -
Atomic bomb in Hiroshima
Thrown by the president Truman. -
Atomic bomb in Nagasaki
Thrown by the president Truman. -
Japan surrenders
