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Japan attack Manchuria
Japanese invaded Manchuria in hope of gaining more natural resources to support their massive expansion on militiarization. They no longer wanted to rely on the U.S for resources. They also attacked Manchuria because they wanted more land and all the raw material Manchuria had to offer. -
Hitler comes to power
hitler came to power because he was popular amoung the german people and offered solutions. -
Italy conquers Ethiopia
Since expansion seemed to be inherent in Fascism, it is not surprising that Benito Mussolini, Fascist dictator of Italy after 1922, eventually looked toward Ethiopia. -
Hitler takes over sudenleland
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Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War started -
Munich conference
The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations. -
spanish civil war
spanish civil war ends. -
Fall of France
In the history of warfare few campaigns between great and approximately equal powers have been decided so swiftly and conclusively as the German conquest of western Europe in May and June 1940. Within five days of the opening of the campaign on 10 May, Holland had surrendered, the French defences on and behind the Meuse had disintegrated, and the French prime minister was already talking of defeat -
Battle of Britain
battle started.....Series of intense raids directed against Britain by the German air force in World War II. The air attacks, intended to prepare the way for a German invasion, were directed against British ports and RAF bases. In September 1940 the attacks turned to London and other cities in a "blitz" of bombings for 57 consecutive nights, which was followed by intermittent raids until April 1941. -
batttle of Britain
battle ended.. -
Germany invades ussr
They used an operation called Barbarossa to prepare their country and also use the Blitzkrieg tactics to help defeat them -
Atlantic Charter signed
The Atlantic Charter was negotiated at the Atlantic Conference by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, aboard warships in a secure anchorage at Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland, and was issued as a joint declaration on August 14, 1941. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor took place in the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack began at 7:48 a.m. (Hawaiian Time) and ended a few hours later. -
Battle of Midway
Major World War II naval battle between the U.S. and Japan. Japanese naval forces under Yamamoto Isoroku sought to seize Midway Island by engaging the numerically inferior U.S. Pacific fleet. U.S. intelligence had broken the Japanese naval code, and the U.S. prepared for the assault by mobilizing about 115 land-based aircraft as well as three aircraft carriers. On June 3 its bombers began striking Japan's carrier force. -
d-day invasion
The day on which the Allied forces invaded France during World War II.The unnamed day on which an operation or offensive is to be launched. -
yalta conference
the fate of the defeated or liberated states of eastern Europe, voting in the future United Nations Security Council, and German reparations -
VE-day
the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of German forces in Europe. -
potsdam conference
Allied conference held in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam after Germany's surrender in World War II. Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill -
bombing of miroshima and nagasaki
The atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 represents arguably the most important and most sinister development in warfare in the 20th century. -
vj day
the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of Japanese forces during World War II. -
Hitler begins final solution
The Nazi program of exterminating Jews during the Third Reich.
