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Invasion of Ethiopia
n October 3, 1935, Italy attacked Ethiopia from Eritrea and Italian Somaliland without a declaration of war. On October 7, the League of Nations unanimously declared Italy an aggressor but took no effective action. -
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War(1936-39), was a military revolt against the Republican government of Spain. The Nationalists, as the rebels were called, received aid from Italy and Germany. -
Rape of Nanjing
two Japanese Navy fleets arrived on both sides of the Yangtze River. On the same day, December 13th, 1937, Nanking fell to the Japanese. In the next six weeks, the Japanese committed the infamous Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, during which an estimated 300,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed, and 20,000 women were raped. -
German annexation of the Sudetenland
The Nazi propaganda machine fabricated false stories of the three million ethnic Germans being oppressed in Czechoslovakia, and demanded to gain control of these lands. -
German Invasion of Poland
The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack -
France and Great Britain Declare War
Prime Minister Chamberlain went to the airwaves to announce to the British people that a state of war existed between their country and Germany. These was the begining of World War II. -
El-Alamein
The Battle of El Alamein, fought in the deserts of North Africa, is seen as one of the decisive victories of World War 2. The Allied victory at El Alamein lead to the retreat of the Afrika Korps and the German surrender in North Africa in May 1943. -
Pearl Harbor
The first hit its target at 7:53 AM, the second at 8:55., 2,403 dead, 188 destroyed planes. -
D-Day
160,000 Allied troops landed on French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
