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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Japan invades Manchuria for vast supply of minerals and rapidly growing country, couildve have been a spark to the beginning of WWII because they broke the rules of the league of nations. -
Hitler made Chancellor of Germany
Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party as Chancellor, he rebuiklt Germany and started WWII -
The Munich Pact
agreement to advert the outbreak of waqr but gave Czechoslovakia to german conquest, slowly brought France and Britian into war with germans -
Kristallnacht
Nazis torched, vandalized homes, schools, and businesses of jews, and jews themselves, murdered six million jews in what is come to be for the Holocaust -
Invasion of Poland
1.5 million german troops invade Poland, was the starting point of WWII,(phony war) -
Dunkirk
Germans trapped British and French soldiers using blitzkrieg, WWII was started for real -
Attack of Pearl harbor
japan bombs u.s naval base at pearl harbor, the U.S were forced to enter WWII and declared war on Japan -
Bataan death march
75,000 Filipino and American troops were forced to make a 65 mile march to prison camps, the U.S surrendered to japan on the Bataan penninsula -
Battle of midway
represents the strategic high water mark on of Japans pacific ocean war, made japan and u.s essentially equals at naval warfare -
D-day
allies invade western Europe, the largest amphibious attack in history -
Battle of the Bulge
hitler tried to drive to the English channel and split the alied armies -
Yalta conference
U.S, Britain, and the soviets made important decisions regarding future of the post war world, prevent future wars with the soviets and become allies -
V E day
Britain and U.S celebrate the victories of war in Europe, the day we defeated the Nazi war machine -
Bombing Hiroshima
U.S dropped first atomic bomb on this city, forced the Japanese to surrender and end war -
V J day
Japan finally surrenders to allied powers, effectively ended WWII
