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Japan invades Manchuria
the kwantung army invaded manchuria with the Mukden incedent.
Japan establishes a "puppet state" called Manchukuo. -
Japan invades China
Japan invaded China for a second time this time in Manchuria. -
Italy invades, annexs Ethiopia
a second attempt to take over the african independent state in the mosty european dominated africa. -
Germany takes over Austria
Austrian german speaking nazis conspired for the second time to seize power and annex the german government and form a nazi rule over austia. -
The munich agreement is signed (appeasment)
settlement reached by germany, great britan, france, and italy that permitted german annexation of Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia. -
German-soviet Non-aggression pact is signed
Germany (hitler) signed a Nonaggression pac t with Russia (Stalin) -
Germany invades poland
Germany had an excuss to invade poland now without fear of the soviet union intervention -
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WWII
WWII events -
The Winter Wars
The Soviet Union invades Finland, initiating the so-called Winter War. The Finns sue for an armistice and have to cede the northern shores of Lake Lagoda and the small Finnish coastline on the Arctic Sea to the Soviet Union. -
The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
The Tripartite Pact is signed
A pact singed called for any mutual assistance should any of the signatores suffer an attack. -
Pearl harbor is bombed
Japan bombed the U.S. naval station named pearl harbor
causing the U.S. to join wwII and declare war on Japan -
U.S declares war on Japan
U.S declares war on Japan after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor -
British bomb germany
The British bomb Köln (Cologne), bringing the war home to Germany for the first time. Over the next three years Anglo-American bombing reduces urban Germany to rubble. -
The battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. -
The Solomon Islands and Guadalcanal
For the next year, the United States engaged Japan in a protracted struggle for the Solomon Islands, which lay near vital Allied shipping routes. Between August 1942 and February 1943, Allied forces carried out an invasion on the island of Guadalcanal—the beginning of a long series of Allied offensives that would eventually force the Japanese out of the Solomons -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
Italian government surrenders
General Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies. Germany reacted with Operation Axis, the Allies with Operation Avalanche. -
D-Day
allies invaded the beaches of Normandy, France -
Allied troops reach, liberate Paris from Nazi occupation
Allied forces broke the nazi defences and liberated france from nazi controll. -
U.S.S.R liberate Warsaw
The Soviets launch a new offensive, liberating Warsaw and Krakow in January, capturing Budapest after a two-month siege on February 13, driving the Germans and their Hungarian collaborators out of Hungary in early April, forcing the surrender of Slovakia with the capture of Bratislava on April 4, and capturing Vienna on April 13. -
Allied troops conquer Okinawa
Allied troops conquer Okinawa, the last island stop before the Japanese islands. -
Hitler commits suicide in his bunker
Adolf Hitler and His wife had commited suicide together in his bunker -
V-E Day
This was the day the Europeans declared victory. -
The atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima
The atomic bomb (little boy) was dropped on Hiroshima after a warning from the us to stop or we'll bomb you. -
The atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
The U.S bombed Japan a second time this time bombing Nagasaki.
