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Hitler's Control
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Holocaust
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Japan invades China
The Republic of China and the Empire of Japan fought on July 7. The Japanese lost due to surrender. -
Anschluss
Germany took over Austria. Adolf Hitler led them to victory. -
Invasion of Poland
Germany invaded Poland. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September, 1939, 27 days after the invasion started. -
Neutrality Act of 1939
After a fierce debate in Congress in November a final Neutrality Act passed. The bans on the loans remained in effect, and the American ships were barred from transporting goods to belligerent ports. -
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Fall of France
The Battle of France is also known as the Fall of France. France had declared war on Germany following the invasion of its ally Poland. -
Battle of Britain
bombing during WW 1 introduced air attacks intended to panic civilian targets. And led in 1918 to the amalgamation of British army and navy air services into the Royal Air Force. -
Embargo Act of 1941
Dependence on American exports causes an oil crisis in Japan. The United States was contacted by the prime minister of Japan but Roosevelt refused to have a meeting. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI, and as Operation Z during its planning. Plus, the attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States. -
Bataan death march
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army. 80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles etc. via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of WW2. Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Battle of Midway Island
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of WW2. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
J. Robert Oppenheimer made the atomic bomb. Then the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 in 1945. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. -
Victory in Europe day
V-Day, is a day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Yalta conference
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named the Argonaut Conference. It was the WW2 meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia. Officially known as Operation Danube.