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Japan invaded Manchuria
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Italy invaded Ethiopia and Albania
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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War took place from 1936 to 1939. Republicans in alliance with the Anarchists and Communists, fought against the Nationalists, an alliance of Falangists, Monarchists, and Catholics, led by General Francisco Franco. The Nationalists won the war in early 1939 and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975. -
Germany entered into the Rome-Berlin Axis alliance with Italy
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The Anti-Comintern Pact
The Anti-Comintern Pact was an anti-Communist pact concluded between Germany and Japan on November 25, 1936, and was directed against the Communist International. -
Japan invaded China
japan sought to expand it´s territory at the expense of China.It occupied Manchuria in 1931 and invaded China in !937 -
Germany demanded Czechoslovakia
The Munich Pact was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without the presence of Czechoslovakia. Today, it is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Nazi Germany. -
Germany occupy Austria
A union of Germany and Austria to create a 'Greater Germany', any attempt at an Anschluss was banned by the Treaty of Versailles, but Hitler drove it through anyway on March 13 1938. -
Munich Conference
Conference held in Munich on September 28--29, 1938, during which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations. -
Pact of steel
The Pact of Steel, also known as the Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy, was a military and political alliance between Italy and Germany. Due to disagreements, the pact was signed without Japan and became an agreement between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. -
France and Great Britain pledged Poland
When Hitler seized the Danzig Corridor.France and Great Britain pledged Poland their military support if necessary -
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Axis victories and expansion
The Battle of Britain June 1940:
After France was occupied, Britain stood alone against the Axis powers. Hitler decided to launch an invasion of Britain Operation Barbarossa June 1941:
In June 1941,
Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia. The Russians were taken by surprise as they had signed a treaty with Germany in 1939. By November 1942 the tables were turning and the Russians won their first victory against Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad. -
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
The Nazi-Soviet Pact was a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939 by foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov, respectively. -
Invasion of Poland
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Persecution and arrest
Jews were persecuted and forced to wear a badge on their clothes.Some were later transported to concentration camps and requires to do forced labour.
From 1940 onwards, the Jews in Poland and later in other countries were moved.
June 1941 marked the beginning of the Jewish massacres in the USSR and eastern Europe -
Deportation
The Nazi leaders planned the final solution,the elimination of all Jews.The concentration camps became a place of mass prisoner extermination and systematic torture -
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Allied victories and conquests
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Allied offensives
Jun 3, 1942 Battle of Midway:
One month after the Battle of the Coral Sea the United States defeated an attack against Midway Atoll.
Aug 21, 1942-February,1943 Battle of Stalingrad:
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II.Marked the turning point of the war when russian forces push them back.
Normandy:
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy with British, American, Canadian and French troops.
Hitler suicide the 8 of May of 1945 -
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Conference in Tehran
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943. It was held in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran and was the first of the World War II conferences held between all of the "Big Three" Allied leaders. It closely followed the Cairo Conference and preceded both the Yalta and Potsdam Conference. -
30% of workers in Gerrmany´s arms industry were foreigners
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Conference in Yalta
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
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Conference in Potsdam
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from July 16 to August 2, 1945. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The three nations were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and later, Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
Such bombs had been in development since 1942, and on 6 August one of them was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later another was dropped on Nagasaki. No country could withstand such attacks, and the Japanese surrendered on 14 August. -
Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki
Development since 1942,it was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. No country could withstand such attacks, and the Japanese surrendered on 14 August. -
End of the Pacific War
An atomic bomb launched by the US President was dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945,150000 people died.Japan surrendered on 2 September.
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Paris Peace Conference
Peace treaties with Germany´s other alliances were drawn up during the Paris Peace Conference in 1946.Treaty with Austria wasn´t signed until 1955
