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Hitler sends troops into the Rhineland
This breaks the Treaty of Versailles but Britain doesn’t respond because of the policy of appeasement. They hope that giving into Hitler means they won’t start another war -
Hitler signs the Anticomintern pact with Japan
This makes Japan and Germany allies. It states that they will both fight communism together (Russia) -
Hitler joins with Austria
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Hitler takes over Studetenland
The prime minister of Britain meets Hitler in Munich to discuss this, agrees to let Hitler have Studetenland in an exchange for a promise that he won’t take over anything else. -
Japan has over a million troops in China
The war between Japan and China has been going on for a while now and Japan has won -
Hitler takes over the rest of Czechoslovakia
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Hitler makes a pact with Russia
This make Japan mad as Germany had signed a pact with them saying they would team up and defeat Russia. Germany talks them around and they also form an alliance with Italy to assist each other with political, military or economic means.
If one of them is attacked it’s declaring war on all three countries -
Hitler Invades Poland
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Britain and France declare war on Germany
Start of WWII. Hitler uses a tactic called ‘Blitz Krieg’ or Lightning War. Britain and France make no real attempt to fight back and this period is known as the ‘phoney war’ -
Germany takes over Netherlands, Belgium and France
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France is defeated
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Japan takes over French Indo China (Vietnam)
Japan wants total control of the pacific but is worried about USA so they decided to attack when they aren’t expecting it. -
Japan destroys half the US fleet in Hawaii
Japanese aircraft strike the US Naval Base in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, destroying half the US fleet.
USA declares war on Japan the next day. -
War is Declared and Japan keeps taking over colonies
The USA declares war on Japan and therefore Germany and Italy as well. Japan attacks Malaya and other British, Dutch and US colonies in Asia. -
Japan has taken control
Japan has Hong Kong, the Phillipines, Malaya, Singapore, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and Burma
