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Benito Mussolini rises to power.
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Vladimir Lenin dies, Joseph Stalin rises to power
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Japan invades Manchuria.
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Hitler appointed chancellor.
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Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.
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Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation on October 25
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Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific.
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Munich Agreement
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany. -
Nazis take Czechoslovakia.
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Nazis invade Poland.
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Soviets attack Finland.
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Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.
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Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
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Germans bomb Paris
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Italy declares war on Britain and France.
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Hitler plans Operation Sea Lion (the invasion of Britain).
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Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.
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President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.
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Heavy German bombing of London;
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Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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United States and Britain declare war on Japan.
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Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.
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Operation Torch begins (U.S. invasion of North Africa).
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Battle of Atlantic climaxes with 27 merchant ships sunk by German U-boats.
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The Germans launch a massive tank offensive near Kursk in the Soviet Union
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British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans.
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US troops land in the Philippines.
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Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.
