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Japan invades Manchuria
Japan claimed that chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army. By february 1932 the Japanese had conquered the whole of Manchuria. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige. -
Olympic games in Germany
The Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that was held in 1936 in Berlin, Nazi Germany. The 1916 Olympics scheduled for Berlin were canceled due to World War I. Under Goebbels' direction, the Nazis intended to use the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin as a showcase for the "new Germany." -
Anschluss
Forced Union of Austria with Germany. -
Germany takes the Sudetenland
The Sudetenland was relegated to Germany between 1 October and 10 October 1938. The Czech part of Czechoslovakia was subsequently invaded by Germany in March 1939. Hitler promised to not invade Czech. if he was given control of the Sudetenland -
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German invasion of Poland
Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east. Polish forces surrendered after losing 65,000 troops and many thousands of civilians. -
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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of World War II, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by the German Air Force. Resulted in British victory. -
Tripartite Pact signed
The Tripartite Pact, (also known as the Berlin Pact), was an agreement between Germany, Japan and Italy signed in Berlin by, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Saburō Kurusu and Galeazzo Ciano.
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Lend Lease Act
Was a principal means for providing U.S military aid to foreign nations during WWII. -
Four Freedoms Speech
Roosevelt insisted that people in all nations of the world shared entitlement to four freedoms: the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to worship God in his own way, freedom from want and freedom from fear. -
Germany attacks Soviet Union
Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest German military operation of WWII. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. -
Atlantic Charter
A charter that included 8 common principles among 26 nations. One of the first key steps in establishing the United Nations. -
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Battle of Midway
The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre. Only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
Casablanca Conference
The Conference was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, French Morocco on January 14 to 24, 1943. They were making a plan for the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. Wikipedia -
Tehran Conference
Strategy meeting with Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill after the Anglo-soviet invasion of Iran. -
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Battle of Normandy
the Allied invasion of western Europe, with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. It resulted in German army retreating south towards Paris. -
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. Battle of the Bulge is the fourth-most lethal American battle by estimated number of americans killed (19,276 killed). -
Yalta Conference
WWII meeting of the heads of government of the US, United Kingdom and Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
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Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. -
Germany surrenders
On May 7, 1945, Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, bringing an end to the European conflict in World War II. General Alfred Jodl, representing the German High Command, signed the document . -
US drops bomb on Hiroshima
The American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was said the new weapon would bring a speedy end to the war. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
The bombing of Nagasaki was the last major act of World War Two and within days the Japanese had surrendered. -
Japanese surrender
The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
