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Japan invades Manchuria
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Fascist Italy invades and conquers Ethiopia
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The Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of Cooperation
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Japan invades China
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Italy joins Germany and Japan in the Anti-Comintern Pact
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Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland
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Under German pressure, the Slovaks declare their independence and form a Slovak Republic
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Warsaw surrenders on September 27. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21.
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The Germans send the Afrika Korps to North Africa to reinforce the faltering Italians.
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British troops defeat the Germans and Italians at El Alamein in Egypt
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Axis forces in Tunisia surrender to the Allies, ending the North African campaign.
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Allied troops liberate Rome
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Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.