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Japan invades Manchuria
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Fascist Italy invades and annexes Ethiopia
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Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation
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The Rome-Berlin Axis is announced.
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan
They both sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement. -
Japan invades China
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Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss
On 9th March 1938, the Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg announced a plebiscite on the independence of Austria. Adolf Hitler took this as an opportunity to take action against the Austrian State. Schuschnigg was pressed to resign. The National Socialist Arthur Seyss-Inquart took over the chancellorship and formed a new government. The Austrian National Socialists took power in Austria.
On the morning of 12th March 1938, troops of the German Wehrmacht and the SS crossed the German-Austrian -
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement
this then forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland. this included the key Czechoslovak military defense positions which were then givin to Nazi Germany -
France and Great Britain guarantee the saftey of the borders of Poland
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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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The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east
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Germany attacks Western Europe
The French and the Neutral countries -
Germany gains control of Norway and Denmark
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Italy joins the war
On June 21 Italy invades southern France -
Battle Of Britain
The German Luftwaffe bombed Britains Airforce but still resulted in Germans being defeated on the 31 of October 1940 -
Operation Sea Lion Postponed
Germany plans to invade Britain were:
1)Beat the morale out of the Britain Airforce
2)The English channel was to be blocked at both ends by German mines
3)Costal zone between France and England dominated by by heavy German artillery
4)Royal Britain Navy to be destroyed -
Rats of Tobruk
The seige was through out 1941.
Australian and Britain counter attack into Libya.
The Rommel and German forces supported Italy in Libya
Royal Australian Navy helped evacuate the wounded -
Operation Barbarossa
Germans used the Blitzkrieg to invade the USSR.
Later in November the Germans were surprised by the winter of USSR and were defeated but still remained incontrol of large areas of USSR -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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The United States declares war on Japan
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Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States
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Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. -
Germans surrender
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End of WW2
The Japanese surrender to the Soviet Union
