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Japan invaded Manchuria
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Italy invaded Ethiopia
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Germany allied with Italy
Germany entered into the Rome-Berlin axis alliance with Italy, which was reneved in 1939 under the name pact of steal -
Germany entered into the anticomitern pact with Japan
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Spanish civil war
Italy and Germany took part in the Spanish civil war supplying the insurgent forces with soldiers and weapons while France and Great Britain choose not to get involved -
Japan invade China
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Munich conference
the munich conference was convened by Hitler following protests by France, Great Britain and other powers over his policy of expansionism. It ended with the democracies accepting Hitlers promises to expand no further -
Germany demanded Czechoslovakia hand over the sudetenland
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invasion of poland by alemania
This invasion of Poland was the start of the war -
German ofensive to the east
German offensive to the east began in June 1941, hitler launched Operation Barbarossaand attaacked Russia, quickly reaching the gates of Moscow and Leingrad. This was an extremly significant event as, in response, the USSR joined the Allied forces in the battle against the Axis powers -
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AXIS VICTORIES AND EXPANSION
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The Invasion of the USSR
The Russians moved in from the east, pushing the Germans out of Poland,Romania and bulgaria.To aupport these advances, German cities were subjected o heavy Allied bombings -
Japanese atack on pearl Harbor
In December, Japan destroyed the US fleet in Pearl Harbor and the US entered the war -
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allied victories and expansions
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American victory at midway
After the USSR and the US entered the cinflict , the war took a decesive turn in June 1942.The americans stopped Japanese advances in the Pacific (battles of midway and Guadacanal) and started reconquering occupied territories. -
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battle of stalingrad
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Allied landings in north africa
In north Africa , the British defeated the Germans at El Alamein.Shortly adter , an allied army under control of General Eisenhower landed in French Africa and defeated the germans in Tunisia (may1943) -
Theran conference
The three mayor allies ( Great Britain, the US and the USSR) , met for the first time at the Theran conference, which was attended by Churchil, Roosevelt and Stalin. There they took joint military message to explit up the end of the war .
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Italy surrenders
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Allied landings in normandy
The liberation of Europe was hastened by the Normandy landings by British and American troops, which brought many soldiers and weapons into France.The British and american forces defeated the german resistance and began advancing from the weast , liberating part of france and entering germany.At the same time , the Russians moved from the east , pushing the Germans out of Poland ,Romania and Bulgaria.To support these advances , German cities were sobjected to heavy allied bombings. -
The conferece in Yalta
This meeting agreed denazification and partion of Germany and Austria in to four occupied zones and the division of Berlin and Vienna; the organisation of democratic elections in the liberated countries; and the creation of an international peacekeeping body; the United Nations
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Germany surrenders
Both Allied armies occupied Germany and met at the river Elbe on 26 April 1945.Hitler committed a suicide on 30 April and, on 8 May , Germany surrendered -
Atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
To force Japan to surrender , US president Turman decided to use a new weapon: The atomic bomb , which was dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The level of distruction was like nothing seen before and aproxmatly 150,000 people died.Faced with this nuclear horror , Japan surrendered on 2 September.The second world was was over. -
Japan surrenders
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Paris peace conference
Peace treaties with germany´s other allies where drawn up during the Paris peace conference. The treaty with Austria was not signed until 1955, the year allied occupation ended
