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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
The Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Hitler made Chancellor of Germany
President Paul Von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. Germany then became a dictatorship. -
The Munich Pact
An agreement between Britain and Germany for Germany to extented its territory into pars of Czechoslovakia -
Kristallnacht
over 8,000 Jewish shop were sacked and looted and tens of thousands of jews were removed to concentration camps. -
Invasion of Poland
German troops invated Poland causeing the start of WW2 -
Dunkirk
Was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France -
Attack on pearl Harbor
Japanese Navy attacked US Naval Base on Pearl Harbor Hawaii. A date which will live in infamy -
Bataan Death March
7500 Filipinos and American troops were forced to walk a 65 mile march to a prison camp -
Battle of Midway
american planes based on land and on carriers defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade Midway islands -
D-Day
This was the beginning of the Allied invasion of Europe. It began with the landing at Normandy, France. It was the largest attack by water in history -
Battle of the Bulge
Battle between France and Germany. Germany was trying to take there land back. -
Yalta Conference
meeting between British Prim Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, President FDR as WW1 winding down -
V E Day
Day marking the allied victory in Europe -
The bombing of Hiroshima
US dropped the first atomic bomb wiping out 90% of the city basically ending WW2 making Japan surrender. -
V J day
Japanese formally surrendered
