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1922 Benito mussolini appointed prime of minister of italy
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1936 Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
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1937 Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
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1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
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1939 Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
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1940 May 10 Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
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1940 July 10 Battle of Britain begins – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
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1940 July 14 - 22 Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
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1941 Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
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1941 Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
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1941, Dec. 7 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan,Germany and Italy declare war on the US - Dec. 9
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1942, June 4-7 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
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1942 Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
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1943 British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
