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Manchuria
Japan invades Manchuria -
Annexed Ethiopia
Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and Ethiopia -
Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation
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Japan invades China
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Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement
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Under German pressure, the Slovaks declare their independence and form a Slovak Republic.
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France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.
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Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania.
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement
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Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe.
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Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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The Soviet Union invades Poland form the east.
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Germany and the Soviet Union divides Poland between them.
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The Soviet Union invades Finland, initiating the so-called Winter War.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
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Germany attacks Western Europe-- France and neutral low countries.
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Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France
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The Soviet Union occupies the Baltic State
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The Italians invade British-controlled Egypt from Italian-controlled Libya.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
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Italy invades Greece from Albania on October 28.
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The Germans send the Afrika Korps to North Africa to reinforce the faltering Italians.
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Bulgaria joins the Axis.
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Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria invade and dismember Yugoslavia.
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A Soviet counteroffensive drives the Germans from the Moscow suburbs in chaotic retreat.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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Allied troops land on the beaches of Salerno near Naples.
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Soviet troops liberate Kiev.
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Allied troops land successfully near Anzio, just south of Rome.