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Appeasement (Chamberlain)
Appeasement was the name given to Britain's policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked -
Japan invades Manchuria
The Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident -
Night of the Long Knives
Was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany -
Italy invades Ethiopia
was a colonial war -
Kristallnacht
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. -
Anschluss
Anschluss refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany -
Germany invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland -
Non Aggression Pact
A treaty between two or more states/countries that includes a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other. -
France surrenders to Germany
The French government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the Nazis launched their invasion of Western Europe -
Battle of Britain
A military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force -
Final Solution
The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps -
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii -
Battle of Midway
A decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II -
Battle of Stalingrad
The largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia -
D-Day
In World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy -
Battle of the Bulge
was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II, -
Liberation of Auschwitz
More than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying -
V-E Day
Marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945 -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.