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Japan occupied Manchuria
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Italy took posession of Ethiopia
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Hitler remilitarised Rhineland
in violation of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler remilitarised the Rhineland -
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Italy and Germany take place in the Spanish Civil War
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Germany entered into the Rome-Berlin Axis
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Germany entered into the Anti-Comintern Pact
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Japan invaded China
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Italy joined the Anti-Comintern Pact
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The Munich Conference took place
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France and Great Britain promised Poland their military support if necessary
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The Nazi-Soviet Pact
To prevent the USSR from joining forces with France and Great Britain and helping Poland, Hitler signed this pact with Stalin. After it, he began the invasion of Poland in September of the same year. -
Invasion of Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
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Axis victories and expansion
The main Axis powers were Germany, Japan and Italy. The Axis leaders were Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Emperor Hirohito (Japan) -
the German army invaded most of western Europe
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German offensive to the east
The East Prussian Offensive was a strategic offensive by the Soviet Red Army against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (World War II). It lasted from 13 January to 25 April 1945, though some German units did not surrender until 9 May. -
Yogoslavia and Greece fell
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Invasion of the USSR
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor attack, surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan. -
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Allied victories and conquests
The big four Allied powers of World War II were England (Great Britain, the United Kingdom), the United States of America, the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R. , Russia), and France. -
American victory at Midway
The Battle of Midway, fought in World War II, took place on June 5, 1942. The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad, (July 17, 1942–February 2, 1943), successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia, U.S.S.R., during World War II. Russians consider it to be one of the greatest battles of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favour of the Allies. -
Allied landings in North Africa
Operation Torch: Allied Invasion of North Africa. The military forces of the United States and the United Kingdom launched an amphibious operation against French North Africa, in particular the French-held territories of Algeria and Morocco. -
Italy surrenders
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies. Germany reacted with Operation Axis, the Allies with Operation Avalanche. As German troops entered Rome, General Badoglio and the royal family fled Rome for southeastern Italy to set up a new antifascist government. -
Allied landings in Normandy
Normandy Invasion, also called Operation Overlord or D-Day, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944, with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. -
Germany surrenders
Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, bringing an end to the European conflict in World War II. General Alfred Jodl, representing the German High Command, signed the unconditional surrender of both east and west forces in Reims, France, which would take effect the following day. -
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. ... Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
Japan surrenders
Nuclear weapons shocked Japan into surrendering at the end of World War II—except they didn't. Japan surrendered because the Soviet Union entered the war. Japanese leaders said the bomb forced them to surrender because it was less embarrassing to say they had been defeated by a miracle weapon.
