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Japan invades Mauchuria
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Facist Italy invades, conquers, anfd annexes Ethiopia.
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Nazi Germany and Facsist Italy sign a treaty of coorperation on October 25; on November 1, the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement
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Japan invades China, initiating WW2 in thePacific
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Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss
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Germany, Italy, GreatBritian, France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudentenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to nazi Germany.
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Under German pressure, the Slovocks declare their imdependance and form a Slovak Republic. The Germans occupy the rump Czech lands in violation of the Munich agreement, forming a Protectorate of Behemia and Moravia
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France and Great Britain
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Facist Italy invades and annexes Albania
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement and a secret codicil dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence
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Germany invades Poland, initiatinig World War II in Europe
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Honoring their guarentee of Polands borders, Great Britian and France declare war on Germany
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The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east.
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Warsaw surrenders on September 27.The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.
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The Soviet Union invades Finland, initiating the so-called Winter War. The Finns sue for an armisticde and have to cede the northern shores of Lake Lagoda and the small Finnish coastline on the Artic Sea to the Soviet Union.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway, Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9.
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Germany attacks western Europe- France and the neutral low Countries. Luxembourg is occupied on May 10.
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Italy enters the war, italy invades southern France June 21
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Soviet Union occupies the Baltic States
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The Soviet Union forces Romania to cede the eastern province of Bessarabia and the northern half of Bukovina to The Soviet Ukraine.
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The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in Defeat.
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Germany and Italy arbitrate andecision on the division of the disputed province.
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The Italians invade British- controlled Egyt from Italian-controlled Libya.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact
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Italy invades Greece from Albania on October 28.
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Slovakia, Hungary, And Romania join the axis.
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The Germans send the Afrika
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Bulgaria joins axis
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Germany, Italy, Hungaery, and Bulgaria invade and dismember Yugoslovakia.
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The Leaders of the terriorist Ustasa movement proclaim the so-called Independant State of Croatia.
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Nazi Germany and its axis powers invade the Soviet Union.
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A soviet counteroffensive drives the Germans from the Moscow suburbs in chaotic retreat.
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Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor.
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US declares war on Japan, turning into WW2
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Axis powers declares war on the United States
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The british bomb brings war home to Germany
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Halt the japanese naval advance
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germany and its axais partners launch new offensive in the soviet union. troops fight their way into Stalingrad on the Volga River by mid september and penetrate deep into the sea.
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US troops halt the Japense island-hopping advance
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British triios defeat the Germans and Italians at El Alammein in Egypt
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Troops land at several points on the beachess Algeria and Morocco in French Noth Africa
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Axis forces in Tunisia surrender to the Allies