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Japan signs treaty with China to respect their Borders
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Japan signs Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war
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Great Depression strikes Japan
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Japanese army seizes Manchuria
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Japan withdraws from League of Nations
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U.S. begins passing the Neutrality Acts
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Hitler disobeys Treaty of Versailles
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Italy attacks Ethiopia
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Germany occupies Rhineland
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Army leaders join Franco, causing Civil War
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Italy and Germany make an alliance
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Axis powers were formed
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Japan invades China, begins full-scale war
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Germany annexes Austria
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Germany takes Sudentenland
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Munich Conference
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More invasions take place; Poles refuse to give aid
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Germany invades Czechoslovakia
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Italy invades Albania
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Nonagression pact is signed
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Stalin and Hitler sign a non-aggression pact
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Hitler used the Blitzkrieg on Poland
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France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
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Soviet Union invades eastern Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland
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Stalin forces Finns to surrender to Soviet Union
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Hitler launches suprise attack on Denmark and Norway
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Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
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Germans take Paris
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French leaders surrender to Germany
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Germany Leftwaffe begins bombing of British cities (Battle of Britain)
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Hitler sends Rommel to help Italian troops in Egypt
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Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
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Germany invades Soviet Union
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German U-boat fires on U.S. destroyer
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Germans seige Leningrad
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Germans try to take Moscow