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Japan Invades China
In 1931 the Japanese Empire was eager to become Impearialistic. They wanted the vast natural resources in China. The Japanese invaded and over took the Chinese weak point of Manchuria. In 1937 fighting between Japanese and Chinese troops on the frontier led to what became known as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. This fighting caused a "full blown conflict" known as the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
Holocaust
The mass murder of 6 million Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and other persecuted groups by the German Nazi's. To Adolf hitler the Jewish people were inferior and an alien threat to the German racial purity. Due to hitler's constant persecution of the Jewish people brought forth concentration camps for the use of mass murder. At the end of WWII the Allies held the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946 which brought Nazi atrocities to horrifying light. -
Munish Conference
At Munich Hitler wanted to gain domination over central Europe. German troops marched into the Sudetenland on the night of October 1st. As part of the Munich agreement all predominantly German territory in Czechoslovakia had to be handed over by October 10th. Poland and Hungary occupied other parts of the country and after a few months Czechoslovakia ceased to exist and what was left of Slovakia became a German "puppet state". -
Non-Agression Pact
On August 23, 1939 shortly before World War II broke out in Europe, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next ten years. With Europe on the brink of another major war, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin viewed the pact as a way to keep his nation on peaceful terms with Germany, while giving him time to build up the Soviet m -
Germany Invades Poland
1.5 million German troops invaded invaded Poland along its border with German controlled territory. While this was going on the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields and German warships and U-boats attacked polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. -
Blitzkrieg
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Battle of Britain
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Lend-Lease Act
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Operation Barbossa
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Pearl Harbor
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Wannsee Conference
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Bataan Death March
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Battle of Midway
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Battle of Stalingrad
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D-Day
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Battle of the Bulge
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Battle of Okinawa
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V-E Day
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Warsaw Pact
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V-J Day
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Bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki