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japan started there invasion of china where they would have there own sort of holocaust killing roughly 20 million. -
Germany was able to secure land from Czechoslovakia shorty after joining with Austria -
Hitler started his invasion of Poland and the streak of imperialistic actions that would follow. -
Britain and France declare war on Germany after the recent invasion of Poland. This was the start of the allied powers. -
in April and may of 1940 Hitler invades both Denmark and Norway -
Italy joined up with the axis powers and hitler -
Germany attacked Britain by using the blitzkrieg strategy but Britain defended the attacks for 3 months -
Hitler attempted to invade Russia this invasion lasted until 1944 with it ultimately being unsuccessful -
japan attacked a u.s harbor and destroyed three ships and brought the u.s into the war -
the u.s destroyed japans first line carrier and most of its best trained naval pilots thus creating a turning point in the war. -
Germany was stuck in a struggle with Russia over the city of Stalingrad while the allies pushed into north Africa to divert axis forces from Russia -
The Allied powers took the island of Sicily from Italy in august 1943 which directly led to the fall Mussolini and the surrender of Italy -
D-day during D-day the allied powers combined there efforts to simultaneously attack Normandy by land air and mostly sea. -
in April 1945 after the German defeat at D-day and Paris being liberated Russians were closing in on berlin and hitler killed himself to avoid capture like Mussolini -
japan had still not surrendered so in august of 1945 the USA dropped two atomic bombs on japan one in Hiroshima and one in Nagasaki. Japan surrendered on august 14th