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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
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Second Italo-Ethiopian War
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Rome-Berlin Axis alliance
Germany entered into the Rome-Berlin Axis alliance with Italy. -
The Remilitarization of the Rhineland
In the violation terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland. -
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Spanish Civil War
Italy and Germany took part in the SCW, supplying the insurgent forces with soldiers and weapons, while France and Great Britain chose not to get involved (Non-Intervention Pact). -
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Second Sino-Japanese War
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Anschluss
Germany uses military force to occupy Austria. -
Annexation of Sudetenland
Germany demanded Czechoslovakia hand over the Sudetenland, whihc was populated by a significant German minority. -
Munich Conference
Convened by Hitler following protests by France, Great Britain and other powers over his policy of expansionism. It ended with the democracies accepting Hitler's promises to expand no further. -
German annexation of the Danzing Corridor
Subsequently, France and Great Britain pledge Poland their military support if necessary. -
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Italian invasion of Albania
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Pact of Steel
Renewed the Rome-Berlin Axis alliance. -
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
To prevent the USSR from joining forces with France and Great Britain and helping Poland, Ribbentrop and Molotov sign it, after which Germany begun the invasion of Poland. It also sketched the division of Poland between these two powers. -
Anti-Comintern Pact
Germany signed it with Japan. -
The fall of Yugoslavia and Greece
They fell to the Germans. -
Launch of Operation Barbarossa
Germany attacks the USSR, quickly reaching the gates of Moscow and Leningrad. Then the USSR joins the Allied forces in the battle against the Axis powers. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan destroyed the US fleet in Pearl Harbor and the US entered the war. -
Battle of Midway
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Guadalcanal Campaign
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Battle of Stalingrad
It's Hitler's first major failure. The city withstood several months of siege, after which the German Field Marshal Paulus surrenders. -
Second Battle of El Alamein
In North Africa, in Egypt, the British defeat the Germans. -
Tehran Conference
It was attended by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. There, they took joint military measures to speed up the end of the war. -
Normandy landings (D-Day)
It was carried out by British, American and Canadian troops. It brought many soldiers and weapons to France. The British and American forces defeated the German resistance and begun advancing from the west, liberating part of France and entering Germany. -
Yalta Conference
This meeting agreed denazification and partition of Germany and Austria into four occupied zones and the division of Berlin and Vienna; the organization of democratic elections in the liberated countries; and the creation of an international peacekeeping body: the UN. -
Elbe Day
Both Allied armies occupied Germany and then they meet at the River Elbe. -
Hitler commits suicide
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The surrender of Germany
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Potsdam Conference
The new leaders (Atlee, Truman and Stalin) reached an agreement to return all of the territories annexed by Germany, separate Austria, dismantle the military industry and prosecute and punish the Nazi leaders. -
The bombing of Hiroshima
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Bombing of Nagasaki
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Surrender of Japan
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Foundation of the UN
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Paris Peace Conference
Peaces treaties with Germany's other allies were drawn up during this conference. -
Universal Declaratio of Human Rights
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Austrian State Treaty
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Millennium Declaration
