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Japan Invades Manchuria
The japanese had conquered Manchuria. -
Appeasement
The policy of making concessions to the dictatorial powers in order to avoid conflict. -
Night of the long knives
Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organizations leaders, including Ernst Rohm. -
Italy Invades Ethiopia
The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and those of the Ethiopian Empire. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or the night of broken glass, also called the November program, was a program against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany. -
Anschluss
Refers to the Anexation of Austria into Nazi Germany -
Germany Invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air as Hitler seeks to remain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland, world war 2 had began. -
Non aggression pact
Germany and the soviet union surprised the world by signing the German soviet nonaggression pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other. -
Battle of Britain
Was a military campaign of the second world war, in which the royal air force defended the UK against large-scale attacks by Nazi germany air force. -
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. -
Japan bombs pearl harbor
The attack on pearl harbor was a surprise military strike by the imperial japanese navy air service. -
Battle of Midway
Was a decisive naval battle in the pacific theater of ww2 that took place between 4 and 7 june 1942, six months after japans attack on pearl harbor -
Battle of Stalingrad
Was the largest confrontation of ww2 in which germany and its allies fought the soviet union for control of the city of Stalingtad. -
Battle of the bulge
The last major German offensive campaign on the western front during ww2. -
D Day
The normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the allied invasion of normandy in operation overlord during ww2 -
Liberation of Auschwits
The soviet army entered auschwitz and liberated more the 7k remaining prisoners who were mostly ill and dying. -
Final Solution
The nazi policy of extermination jews, introduced by the Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million jews in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945. -
V-E Day
Making the allied victory in Europe in 1945 -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The US detonated two nuclear weapons over the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki on august 6 and 9, 1945 -
V-J day
Americans declared august 14 "Victory over japan day" or V-J day.
