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the empire of Japan invaded Manchuria on September 18th 1931 immediately following the mukden incident -
on 31 march 1939 prime minister neville chamberlain told the house that in event of any action that clearly threatened polish independence -
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 -
the idea of anschluss rose after the 1871 unification on Germany excluded Austria and the German Austrians from the prussian German empire. -
nazi propagandist accused Poland of persecuting ethnic Germans living in poland -
Czechoslavakia must surrender its border regions and defenses to Nazi Germany -
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 -
Germany invaded France and the low countries, along with the French and Belgian troops back to the French port of Dunkirk -
Italy joined the war with a plan to concentrate Italian forces on a major offensive against the British empire. -
divided France into two zones one to be under Germany military and the other one left to the French in full sovereignty. -
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 -
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 -
the UK declared war on Germany after they invaded Poland, France also declared war on Germany -
Hitler invaded Denmark and Norway because he feared that the UK and France were planning to occupy Norway -
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 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. -
Hitler launched the assault on Yugoslavia in order to overthrow the recently established government in Yugoslavia -
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 -
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 -
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