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Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese blew up a small section of the manchurian railroad near the city of mukden
Used this as an excuse to take over manchuria -
japanese army had formed manchuria into a seperate state renamed manchukuo
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Hitler announces creation of new air force
One week later, he begins a military draft that expands Germany's army from 100,000 to 550,000- These steps are in direct violation to the treaty of Versailles -
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Japan starts to cooperate with Nazi Germany
Japan assumed that the two countries would ulitmately launch an attack together on the Soviet union and divide soviet resources between them. When germany and the soviet union signed the non-aggression pact in 1939, Japan looked to south asia for raw materials to fuel its millitary machine, because they weren't able to defeat the soviet union without help -
Mussolini's forced invaded ethiopia
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Hitler sent German Troops into the Rhineland
Hitler was convinced that the western states had no intention of using force to maintain the treaty of versailles, so he sent troops into the rhineland. (Rhineland was a part of germany, butwas a demilitarized area, meaning germany was not permitted to have weapons or fortifications there) France had the right to use force against any violation of this provision, but not without the consent of the British. The British did not consent the use of force against Germany. -
Italy and Germany send troops to help with Spnaish Civil war
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Mussolini and Hitler made an agreement recognizing their common and political interests
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Mussolini spoke of a new alliance between Italy and Germany called the Rome-Berlin axis
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Germany and Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, promising a common front against Communism
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Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of china at the time, ended his military efforts against the communists and formed a new united front against the japanese
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Hitler considered Germany once more a world power
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Chinese and Japanese foreces clashed south of beiljing and hostilities spread
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Japan seizes the chinese capitol of Nanjing
Japanese army destroys the city and massacred about 100,000 civilians and prisoners of war. So brutul it was known as the 'Rape of Nanjing' -
Austrian Nazi's in charge of the Austrian goverment invite German Nazi's into austria
By threatening Austria with invasion, Hitler forced the Austrian chancellor to put Austrian Nazi's in charge of the goverment. The new goverment invited german troops to enter austria and 'help' to maintain law and order. -
Hitler annexes Austria to Germany
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Hitler decided to pursue Anschluss- or union with austria, his native land
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HItler demanded that Germany be given the Sudetenland
Sudetenland: an area in northwestern czechoslovakia mostly inhabited by germans.
Used Brinksmanship to achieve his objective (threatening to go to war if they didn't comply with his demands) -
Hitler invaded and took control of Bohemia and Moravia in western Czecholslovakia
SLovakia became a puppet state controlled by Nazi Germany -
Hitler declares to prague he will be known as the greatest german of them all
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Franco's forces win the spanish civil war
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Germany and the soviet union signed the nazi-soviet non-aggression pact
They promised not to attack each other. To get the pact, Hitler offered stalin control of eastern poland and the baltic states- however he expected to fight the soviet union anyway. -
Germany and the soviet union divided poland
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Hitler attacked denmark and norway with another blietzreig
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Germany launches an attack on the Netherlands, Belgium and France
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Battle of Normany
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France signs an armistice
German armies now occupied about three-fifths of france. A german authoritarian regime was set up over the remander of the country (called Sichy France). An aged french hero of WWI was set up as the leader, Marchal Henri Petain. -
Japan demanded the right to exploit economic resources in french indochina.
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Battle of Britain
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Japan formally joins axis powers
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Hitler invades the soviet union, thus breaking the non-aggresion pact
The attack streched out some 1,800 miles long. THe german troops captured about two million russian soldiers -
German troops penetrate deep into societ territory
Three seperate german troops invade soviet territory-
- one army reaches ukraine
- one army seiges leningrad
- third army is within sight of moscow -
Soviet forces counterattack and stop germans advance
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Pearl Harbor
Japanese troops attack the u.s. naval base at pearl harbor in hawaii. Suprise attack damaged or sunk 18 ships, and killed or wounded 3,500 americans. The same day, the japanese attacked the philippines and advanced on the british colony of malaya. Then invaded the dutch east indies and occupied several other small islands in the pacific. -
Wake island
Allied offensive -
Wake island
Allied offensive -
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Bataan
Allied offensive -
Java Sea
Allied offensive -
Japan nearly in control of all southeast asias and western pacific ocean
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Coral sea
american navy defends australia from invasion -
Corregidor
Allied offensive -
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El Alamein
British defeat general rommel and the germans -
Midway islands
Allied offensive
- TRUE TURNING POINT OF THE WAR IN PACIFIC
u.s. destroys 4 japanese aircraft carriers to establish naval superiority -
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Stalingard
-most vicious and costly battle of the war
-german troops eventually encircled and forced to surrender
-by spring of 1943 soviets have begun to push germans out of soviet union (clear that the germans would not be able to defeat the soviets) -
Eastern Solomans
Allied offensive -
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Guadalcanal
Allied offensive
americans made first assult on a japanese-held island -
North Africa landing
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British and American troops defeat german and italian troops in algeria and force them to surrender
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Sicily
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Battle of Kursk
Soviets defeated the Germans with the greatest tank victory of WWII -
Allied forces land on mainland italy
Mussolini kicked out of power by this time and new italian gov't wants to surrender -
Tawara
Allied offensive -
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Anzio
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Allies makes D-day invasion at normandy
-Largest naval invasion in history
-Germans slow to respond (thuoght was decoy)
-allies send 2 million men and 1/2 million vechicles by september 1944 -
Rome is captured
-Germans were able to sucessefully defend italy up until this point
- germans rescue mussolini -
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Saipan
Allied offensive -
Minsk
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Guam
Allied offensive -
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Warsaw
Soviet troops occupied warsaw -
Allies liberate paris
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Leyte Gulf
Allied offensive -
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Battle of the Bulge
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Hitler moves into a bunker
55 feet under berlin -
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Iwo Jima
Allied offensive -
Allies cross the rhine river and advance into germany
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Berlin
Soviets entered berlin in april -
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Okinawa
Allied offensive -
Italian partisans, or resistance fighters shoot Mussolini
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Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrendered
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Hiroshima Atomic bombing
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Nagasaki Atomic bombing
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Emporer Hirohito of Japan surrenders to the allies