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Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria.
Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria for more raw resources to fuel there growth. -
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
German President Paul von Hindenburg is convinced to appoint Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany. -
France signs Armistice with Germany.
On 22 June 1940, the French delegation signed the Armistice agreement imposed by Germany at the very location of the 1918 Armistice signing. -
Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
Hitler decided to invade Czechoslovakia to expand, he is met with very little pushback. -
Russia and Germany sign non aggression pact.
soviet Russia and Nazi Germany form a non aggression pact to dived the countries that lay between. -
Hitler invades Poland
Germany invaded Poland. To justify the action, Nazi propagandists accused Poland of persecuting ethnic Germans living in Poland. -
Britain and France declare war on Germany
the united kingdom declared war on Germany two days after they decided to invade Poland, France followed later that day. -
Blitzrieg
Blitzrieg was a strategy use by the Germans during the invasion, it roughly translates to "lightning war" this strategy of fast invasion was used to avoid dragging out the war. -
Chamberlain resigns.
Neville Chamberlain resigned as Prime Minister in May 1940 due to ill health, Winston church hill takes over as prime minister of England steering them through the war. -
Hitler invades Denmark and Norway.
Nazi Germany invades Denmark, Denmark surrenders and is occupied, it serves as a useful base in the fight against Norway. -
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dunkirk
Operation Dynamo, the evacuation from Dunkirk, involved the rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk between 26 May and 4 June 1940. -
Italy enters war on side of Axis powers
On June 10, 1940, shortly before Germany defeated France, Italy joined the war as Germany's ally. In addition to invading France, Italian forces attacked British interests in North and East Africa. -
Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia
Together with its allies Italy, Bulgaria and Hungary, Germany invaded Greece and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. It was the largest land offensive in human history, with around 10 million combatants taking part. -
pearl harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. on December 7, 1941. -
Britain and US declare war on Japan
The government of the United Kingdom declared war on the Empire of Japan on 8 December 1941, following the Japanese attacks on British Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong on the previous day (same day Malaya and Hong Kong time) as well as in response to the bombing of the US fleet at Pearl Harbor. -
the battle of midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
Doolittle Raiders
The Doolittle Raid, also known as Doolittle's Raid, as well as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. It was the first American air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago. -
Germany surrenders
The unconditional surrender of the German Third Reich was signed in the early morning hours of Monday, May 7, 1945, at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) at Reims in northeastern France. -
Japanese surrender
The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, bringing the war's hostilities to a close.