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Treaty of Versailles is signed.
Treaty is signed between Allies and the Central Powers. Germany got blamed for the entire war. -
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World War II: Super Powers Collide
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Japan Invades Manchuria
On September 18th, in violation of all its treaty obligations, Japan occupied Machuria, in northeast China. It was the first step on the path to World War II. -
Italy Attacks Ethiopia
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Germany Occupies Rhineland
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Japan Invades China
Beijing and Nanjing fell to the Japanese in 1937 -
Germany Annexes Austria
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Germany Invades Polan
After the Invasion of Poland, Germany and France declared war on Germany...World War II have started. -
France Surrenders to Germany
Germany took the northern part of France and established a puppet government in the southern part. -
Germany Invades Soviet Union
Germany betrays the Soviet Union and breaks the Nonagression Pact. -
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. United States finally enters World War II. -
Germany surrenders at Stalingrad
Soviets with the help of an extreme cold weather defeated the German army at Stalingrad. -
D-Day Invasion
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” -
Germany Finally Surrenders
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Atomic Bomb / Japan Surrenders
The B-29, "Enola Gay," piloted by the squadron commander, Col. Paul Tibbets, flew to Japan and dropped the bomb on August 6, 1945. The bomb was nicknamed “Little Boy” and used U-238 as its nuclear core. At 8:15 AM, the line from Hiroshima to Tokyo went dead. Reports started coming in that Hiroshima had been obliterated by air attack. Reports of the dead ranged from 75,000 to 180,000 dead; due to radiation, people would be dying for decades from cancer and birth defects.
