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japanese invasion of manchuria
the empire of Japan invaded Manchuria on September 18th 1931 immediately following the mukden incident -
Britain rearms and reassures Poland
on 31 march 1939 prime minister neville chamberlain told the house that in event of any action that clearly threatened polish independence -
hitler becomes chancellor
Hindenburg reluctantly agreed to appoint Hitler as chancellor after the Parliamentary elections of July and November 1932 had not resulted in the formation of majority of the government -
german anschluss of austria
the idea of anschluss rose after the 1871 unification on Germany excluded Austria and the German Austrians from the prussian German empire. -
hitler invades poland
nazi propagandist accused Poland of persecuting ethnic Germans living in poland -
treaty of munich
Czechoslavakia must surrender its border regions and defenses to Nazi Germany -
hitler invades czechoslavakia
Hitler's wish to occupy Czechoslavakia was primarily caused by the foreign exchange crisis as Germany had run down its foreign exchange reserves by early 1939 -
Dunkirk
Germany invaded France and the low countries, along with the French and Belgian troops back to the French port of Dunkirk -
italy enters war on side of axis powers
Italy joined the war with a plan to concentrate Italian forces on a major offensive against the British empire. -
France signs armistice with Germany
divided France into two zones one to be under Germany military and the other one left to the French in full sovereignty. -
russia and germany sign pact
the countries signed a non aggression pact known as the molotov ribbentrop pact, where they both agreed on they would not attack each other and secretly divided countries that are between them -
phoney war
after war was declared in September there was eight months before any sort of fighting happened in France. the period of inactivity was known as the phoney war -
britain and france declare war on germany
the UK declared war on Germany after they invaded Poland, France also declared war on Germany -
Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
Hitler invaded Denmark and Norway because he feared that the UK and France were planning to occupy Norway -
Chamberlain resigns
neville chamberlain resigned as prime minister in may 1940 due to illness and died 6 months later in november due to cancer. upon his resigning winston churchill became prime minister over britains war time -
Blitzkreig
blitzkreig is a term used to describe the method of offensive warfare, it was Germany's strategy to avoid a long war during the ww2 period in europe. -
Italy and Germany attack yugoslavia
Hitler launched the assault on Yugoslavia in order to overthrow the recently established government in Yugoslavia -
operation barbarossa
operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the soviet union by the Nazi's and many of there allies, Barbarossa is the biggest invasion in history with over 3.8 million troops, thousands of tanks and aircraft and more then half a million horses travelling across the entirety of Europe -
pearl harbor
the attack on pearl harbor was an attack on the United states against the American naval base by the Japanese naval air force, the attack on the USA was a plan that the Japanese could believe they could severely cripple the US fleet and buy them time in the pacific and south east asia -
doolittle raiders
The Doolittle raid was an air raid attack by the United states in forms of retaliation on the Japanese targeted towards Tokyo, the raid forced Japan to recall combat forces to home defence as it raised fear to the Japanese civilians and boosted the confidence of the us army corps