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Japan invades Manchuria.
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Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.
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Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation on October
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact
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Japan invades China, initiating ww2 in pacififc
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany.
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France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.
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Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe.
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Honoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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Soviet troops liberate Kiev.
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Allied troops land successfully near Anzio, just south of Rome.
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British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans.
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American forces break out of the Normandy beachhead and race eastward towards Paris.
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US troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen.
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HItler commits suicide
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V-E day
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.
Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.
