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Sep 18, 1931

Japan invades Machuria.

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Jan 30, 1933

The date most frequently assotiated with the start of the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler was appointed German chancellor, setting in motion what would become the Nazi genocide against the Jews.

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Oct 25, 1936

Nazi Germany and Facist Italy sign a traty of cooperation, creating Rome-Berlin Axis.

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Nov 25, 1936

Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed agains the Soviet Union and the International Communist Movement.

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Jul 7, 1937

Japan invades China starting World War II in the Pacific.

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Apr 7, 1939

Facist Italy invades and annexes Albania.

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Aug 23, 1939

Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign an nonaggression agreement and a secret condicil diving Easter Europe into spheres of influence.

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Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades Polans, starting Worl War II in Europe.

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Sep 3, 1939

Poland's allies, France and Britain, declare war on Germany

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Sep 17, 1939

Soviet Union invades Poland from the East.

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May 10, 1940

Germany attacks Luxemburg.

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Jun 10, 1940

Italy enters to war.

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Jun 22, 1940

France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline

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Sep 27, 1940

The Axis powers, Germany, Italy and Japan, sign the Tripartite Pact. The Pact provided for mutual assistance should any of the signatories suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war. This formalizing of the alliance was aimed directly at "neutral" America, designed to force the United States to think twice before venturing in on the side of the Allies.

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Dec 7, 1941

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

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Dec 8, 1941

The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II.

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Dec 11, 1941

Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.

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Jun 4, 1942

The Battle of Midway. The United States navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the Central Pacific at Midway.

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Aug 25, 1942

United States troops halt the Japanes island-hopping advance toward Australia at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

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Jul 5, 1943

The Germans launch a massica tank offensice hear Kurks in the Soviet Union

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Jul 10, 1943

The United States and Britain troops land on Sicily.

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Jun 6, 1944

Britain and the United States troops successfully land on the Narmandy because of France, opening a "second front" against the Germans.

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Jun 22, 1944

The Soviets launch a massive offensive in Eastern Byelorussia, destroying the German Army Group Center and drivring westward to the Vistula River acroos from Warsaw in Central Poland.

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Oct 20, 1944

United States troops land in the Philippines.

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Dec 16, 1944

The Germans launch a final offensive in the West, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in an attepmt to re-conquer Belguim ans split the Allied forces along the German border.

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Apr 16, 1945

The Soviets aunch their final offensive encircling Berlin, known as the Battle of Berlin.

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Apr 30, 1945

Hitler commites suicide by a gunshot

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Aug 6, 1945

The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

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Aug 9, 1945

The United States drops an atomic bomb on Magasaki.

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Sep 2, 1945

Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.