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Japan invades Manchuria
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Hitler becomes German Chancellor and withdraws Germany from the League of Nations
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Germany announces rearmament and conscription
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Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
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German troops re-enter the Rhineland
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Italy and Germany support Franco in the Spanish Civil War
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Germany and Japan become allies
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Japan invades China
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German troops occupy Austria
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Czechoslovakia is weakened as the Sudenland is ceded to Germany at the Munich conference
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Germany occupies Czechoslovakia. Italy invades Albania
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The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact is signed
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Germany invades Poland. Britian and Frace declare war on Germany
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German overruns Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France. Italy enters the war.
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The Battle of Britian prevents a German invasion of Britian
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British and Australian forces defeat Italians in North Africa
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Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
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Germany invade the USSR
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbour and British Malaya
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Japanese advance in South-East Asia and the Pacific
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Mass greetings begin at Auschwitz
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Geras are defeated at El Alamein
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Russians defeat Germans at Stalingrad
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Japanese are forced back in the Pacific
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After the 'D-Day' landings, the Wesr=tern Allies advance towards Grmany while Soviet forces advance on the Eastern Front.
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Germany surrenders
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Japan surrenders following dropping attomic bombs
