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Japan Invades Manchuria
Attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province, in order to eventually encompass all of East Asia. This proved to be one of the causes of World War II. -
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World War II CPUSH
Events of WWII -
Italy Invades Ethiopia
European powers, but was purchased with their own money including taking over Ethiopia. -
Germany Re Occupies The Rhineland
It is of economic importance and militarily is still considered strategically significant. The Germans invaded and took it over. -
Spanish Civil War Start
With the establishment of a dictatorship led by General Francisco Franco in the aftermath of the Civil War, all right-wing parties were fused into the structure of the Franco regime. -
Franco Rises to Power
Franco was a Spanish general, dictator and the leader of the Nationalist military rebellion in the Spanish Civil War, and totalitarian head of state of Spain. -
Rome-Berlin Axis Pact
Europe, Africa, East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, but the war ended with their total defeat and dissolution. -
Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific.
Japan invades China which then starts up the war in the Pacific Ocean. -
Germany Invades Poland
Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish-German border to more established lines of defence to the east. -
Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign treaty cooperation
Sign treaty establishing the Axis powers. -
Spanish Civil War Ends
With the establishment of a dictatorship led by General Francisco Franco in the aftermath of the Civil War, all right-wing parties were fused into the structure of the Franco regime. -
Italy Invades
Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania. -
Common Defence Act
The treaty contained promises of mutual military assistance between the nations in the event either was attacked by another European country. -
Germany Breaks Treaty
Germany violated the treaty by occupying the rest of Czechoslovakia. -
Britian and France Declares War
Because they had a treaty with Poland in which they had undertaken to help Poland if its independence was threatened by force. -
Germany Invaded France
Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phony War. -
Battle of Britain Starts
waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom and its campaign, was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force, especially Fighter Command. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor was a surpise attack which the United States was not ready for it fleeing the United States Warships back to bay. -
Stalingrad Begins
Major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union. -
Allied Victory In Africa
The North African countries fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia. -
D- Day
Although the initiative had been seized from the Germans some months before, so far the western Allies had been unable. -
The Battle of the Bulge
The battle that ensued is known historically as The Battle of the Bulge. The courage and fortitude of the American Soldier was tested against great adversity. -
Germany Surrenders
German surrender to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union took place in late April basically ending the war. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Allies of World War II created an atomic bomb which dropped on the cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Japan cities.