WW II

By Smilton17

  • Manchuria

    Japan invades Manchuria

  • Annexed Ethiopia

    Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and Ethiopia

  • Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation

  • Japan invades China

  • Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss

  • Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement

  • Under German pressure, the Slovaks declare their independence and form a Slovak Republic.

  • France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.

  • Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania.

  • Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement

  • Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe.

  • Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.

  • The Soviet Union invades Poland form the east.

  • Germany and the Soviet Union divides Poland between them.

  • The Soviet Union invades Finland, initiating the so-called Winter War.

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway.

  • Germany attacks Western Europe-- France and neutral low countries.

  • Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France

  • The Soviet Union occupies the Baltic State

  • The Italians invade British-controlled Egypt from Italian-controlled Libya.

  • Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.

  • Italy invades Greece from Albania on October 28.

  • The Germans send the Afrika Korps to North Africa to reinforce the faltering Italians.

  • Bulgaria joins the Axis.

  • Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria invade and dismember Yugoslavia.

  • A Soviet counteroffensive drives the Germans from the Moscow suburbs in chaotic retreat.

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

  • Allied troops land on the beaches of Salerno near Naples.

  • Soviet troops liberate Kiev.

  • Allied troops land successfully near Anzio, just south of Rome.

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