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WWII
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Alliance
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis" -
Anti-Komintern Pact
Germany & Japan sign anti-Komintern pact an anti-communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan (later to be joined by other, mainly fascist. -
Munich Agreement
Agreement concluded at Munich, September 29, 1938, between Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy. A settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined -
Sudetenland Medal
Sudetenland Medal Instituted on 18 October 1938, the medal commemorated the union of the Sudetenland to Germany and was a decoration of Nazi Germany awarded in the interwar period. -
The Hitler-Stalin Pact
Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact, The Hitler-Stalin Pact -
Invasion
Germany envades Poland -
War
Britain declares war -
Invasion of Poland
Reds invade Poland -
Operation Weserübung
Operation Weserübung was the code name for Germany's assault on Denmark and Norway during the Second World War and the opening operation of the Norwegian Campaign. -
The Armistice
The Armistice of 22 June 1940 was signed at 18:36 near Compiègne, France, by the top military officials of Nazi Germany and more junior representatives from the French Third Republic. -
Battle of Britain
On this day in 1940, the Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which will last three and a half months -
Invasion of the Soviet Union
Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
A swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes followed, descending on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in a ferocious assault. The surprise attack struck a critical blow against the U.S. Pacific fleet and drew the United States irrevocably into World War II. -
The United States declares war on Japan
On this day, as America’s Pacific fleet lay in ruins at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt requests, and receives, a declaration of war against Japan.
