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Benito Mussolini says the alliance between Italy and Germany is a "axis"
Benito Mussolini spoke to a crown in Milan. The name "Axis" for Italy and its allies when he says that the "line between Rome and Berlin is not a partition but rather an axis around which all European states...can also collaborate." -
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WWII
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Anti-Comintern Pact
This pact was between the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany. This anti-communist pact was opposed to the ideologies of the Comintern of Communist International. It aims to vanish all existing states at its command, as communism tends to endanger the internal peace of nations, as well as their social well-being. Th reason behind communism is a threat to world peace because of the activities involved in it. -
Munich Agreement Signed
British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. -
Sudetenland Medal
The Commemorative medal was given to soldiers of the Third Reich who participated in the October 1, 1938, annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. It was designed by Richard Klein that shows two male figures representing the Sudetenland being freed from its shackles by Nazi Germany. -
The Hitler-Stalin Pact
On this day bot dictators, Hitler and Stalin, from Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact, stunning the world, given their ideologies. The dictators were, despite appearances, both playing to their own political needs. -
Germans invade Poland
At 4:45 a.m., 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its border with German-controlled territory. The German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler said the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. -
Britain and France declared war on Germany
On this day, the response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland in Septemer 1,1939, Britain and France, both became allies to declare war on Germany. -
Soviet Union invades Poland
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov declares that the Polish government has ceased to exist, as the U.S.S.R. exercises the “fine print” of the Hitler-Stalin Non-aggression pact, The invasion and occupation of eastern Poland. -
Germany invades Norway and Denmark
German warships enter major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, leaving thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, German forces occupy Copenhagen, with other Danish cities. -
France to Surrender
With Paris fallen and the German conquest of France reaching its end. Marshal Henri replaces Paul Reynaud as prime minister and announces his intention to sign an armistice with the Nazis. -
The Battle of Britain begins.
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, begins. After the bombing had stopped, Britain went back to being the same. Which meant that the Germans had lost their first battle. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in an invasion of the Soviet Union. Three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed the frontier into Soviet territory. -
Pearl Harbor bombed
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 declare war on Japan
America’s Pacific fleet lay in ruins at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt requests, and receives, a declaration of war against Japan.