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Appeasement
Chamberlain gave Hitler what he wanted to try and avoid war -
Japan invades Manchuria
when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. After the war, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo -
Night of the Long Knives
was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
was a colonial war fought from 3 October 1935 until 5 May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and those of the Ethiopian Empire. -
Anschluss
refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938. -
Kristallnacht
was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. The German authorities looked on without intervening. -
Non Aggression Pact
enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact and to not take military action against each other for 10 years -
Germany invades Poland
The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union. The Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September. -
Final Solution
Germans formal surrender -
Battle of Britain
was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces -
France surrenders to Germany
government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the Nazis launched their invasion of Western Europe. -
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
was a surprise preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941 -
Battle of Stalingrad
was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia -
Battle of Midway
was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place between 4 and 7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea -
D-Day
Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
Battle of the Bulge
was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II, and took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945 -
Liberation of Auschwitz
more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. -
V-E 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 on the 8 May 1945 -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end
