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Japan and Manchuria
Japan Invades Manchuria -
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World War II
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Anti-Comintern Pact
Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact -
Japan Invades
Japan Invades China, and initiating WWII in the Pacific -
Munich agreement
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement -
Germany and Soviet Union
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign the nonagression agreement -
Germany vs. Poland
Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe -
Great Britain
Great Britain and France declare war on Germany -
Germany
Germany invades Denmark and Norway, Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack -
Italy
Italy enters the war, Italy invades southern France on June 21 -
The Soviet Union
The Soviet Union forces Romania to cede the eastern province of Bessarabia -
Air War
The air war was known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany -
Afrika Korps
The German send the Afrika Korps to North Africa to reinforce the faltering Italians -
Bulgaria
Bulgaria joins the Axks -
Soviet vs. Germany
A Soviet counteroffensive drives the German from the Moscow suburbs in a chaotic retreat -
Pearl Harbor
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor -
United States
The US troops Halt the Japanese island advances towards Australia at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands -
United States Army
The US troops land in the Philippines -
Germans last chance
The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in a attempt to regain power in Belgium -
Hitler
Hitler commits suicide -
United States
The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima -
United States
United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki -
Japan Surrenders
Japan formally surrenders, which ends World War II