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annexation of manchuria
Japans exand its territory at the expanse of china.It started occuping it at the north (manchuria) -
possesion of Ethiopia
Italy conquered ethiopia as part of its mission to extend its colonial empire -
Remilitariation of the Rhineland by Hilter
It happened because of the violation of the Treaty of Versailles -
Anti-Cominterm Pact
Germany entered with Japan -
Anticomintern Pact
With Japan -
Rome-Berlin axis
Germany alliance with Italy -
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Spanish civil war
Italy and Germany took part supplying soldriers and weapons -
invasion of China
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Massacre in China
One of the most famous massacres against the civilian population took place in Nanking (China) = 200000 people were killed -
Occupation of Austria
Use of military force to do it -
demandation of Czechoslovakia to hand over the Sudetenland
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Munich conference
Convened by Hilter following protests by France, Great Britain; etc.
It ended with the democracies accepting Hilter´s promises to expand no further -
Nazi soviet pat
Created by Hilter and Stalin to prevent the USSR from joining with F, Gb and helping Poland -
Pact of steel
Rome-Berlin axis pact was renewed -
Invasion of Poland
following it, Hilter launched "lighting war", which consisted of using armoured divisions and strong aerial support. -
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Axis victories
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Declaration of war
In response to the nazi soviet pact the allies declared war on Germany. -
Germany army invided western europe
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Yugoslavia and Greece also fell
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Operation Barbarossa
Hilter attacked Russia, in response, the USSR joined the Allied forces in the battle against the Axis powers -
Japan destroyed the UA fleet
This happened in Pearl Harbor and the US entered the war -
LEague of Nations vs the Allies
The need for an organisation to replace the discredit LEague of Nations was addresed by the Allies -
Beggining of the Jewish massacres
In USSR and eastern Europe -
"Final Solution"
Nazi leaders planned the final solution, i.e. the ellimination of all Jews. At that time, the concentreation camps became places of mass prisioner extermination -
Decesive turn
The americans stopped Japanesa advances and startes reconquering occupied territories -
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Allieed offensives
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germans assaulted Stalingrad
was Hilters first major failure -
Germans were defeated in Tunisia
British ndefeated the germans in El Alamein. Allied army landed in French Africa and defeated the germans in Tunisia -
Tehran conferenece
Three major Allies met for the first time -
End of the seige of Leningard
Soviets took back Ukraine and ended the seige of leningard -
Liberation of Europe was hatened
By the Normandy landing by British and American troops -
workers in Germany foreigners
30% of workers in Germany were foreigners -
Third conference
Held in Potsdam. The new leaders reached an agreement to return all of european territories anexed by Germany, separate Austria, dismantle the military industry and prosecute and punish Nazi leaders. -
Atomic bomb
To force Japan surrended, US president used the atomic bomb, which was dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Aprobal of the Charter of the United Nations
Which was signed by 46 founding states, took place during the San Franciso conference -
Second conference
It took place in Yalta. This meeting agreed denazification and partion of Germny and Austreia into four occupied zones and the divison of Berlin and Vienna. United Nations -
Both Allied armies occupied Germany
and met at the river Elbe -
Hilter commited suicide
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Germany surrendered
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Japan surrrended
Faced with this nuclear horror Japan surrended and the second world war was over -
Paris Peace Conferencde
Peace treaties with germany´s other allies were drawn up during the conference. -
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
It is a text that remains hugely important to this today -
Peace treaty with Austria
The treaty with Austria was not signed until 1955, the year the Allied occupation ended.
