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WWII
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Japan takes Manchuria
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Italy invades and takes Ethiopia.
Ethiopia's armies were far less advanced than Italy, and Italy saw this as an easy starting point. -
Hitler goes against the Treaty of Versailles
Built German armies in defiance of the Treaty, then in 1936 he sent troops into the "demilitarized" Rhineland bordering France. -
Spain enters civil war.
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Japanese armies overran much of eastern China.
This started the Secibd Sino-Japanese War, Western protest's did not stop Japan. -
Hitler makes nonaggression pact with Joseph Stalin
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The nazi's start forcing Jews to live in Ghettos
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Japanese take European possession
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Germany invades Poland
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Japan advances into French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies
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Hitler forces france to surrender
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German bombers appear over London.
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Axis controlled most of Europe
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German planes bomb London until May 1941
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FDR persuaded Congress to pass the Lend-Lease Act.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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The Battle of the Coral Sea.
battle lasted five days, -
The "Big Three"-Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin- agreed to focus on finishing the war in Europe before trying to end the war in Asia.
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D-Day
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Jews have killed some six million Jews
