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Fascist Italy
Fascist Invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia -
Anti-Comintern Pact
Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement -
Austria
Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss -
Hitler Invades
Hitler invades Poland on September 1st -
Poland's borders
Honoring their guarantee of Poland's borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany -
Italy Axis powers
Italy enters the war as a member of the Axis powers -
Tripartite Pact
Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the tripartite pact creating the Axis Alliance -
Stalingrad
Four million troops poured over the Russian border -
Attack Russia
Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia with a huge force of over four million troops -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombed the Pearl Harbor -
D-Day
Allied forces invaded northern France -
Paris
Paris is liberated from German control -
Iwo Jima
US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima -
US Third Army
The US Third Army under General Patton crosses the Rhine River -
Roosevelt dies
US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler commits suicide -
Surrenders
Germany surrenders to the Allies -
Victory in Europe
Mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of WWII -
Bomb
The Untied States drops the Atomic bomb on Japan -
Japan Surrendered
Japan finally surrendered formally
