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When Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.
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Hitler is made dictator of Germany by president Hindenburg
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Japanese General Matsui Iwane ordered that the city of Nanking be destroyed. Much of the city was burned, and Japanese troops launched a campaign of atrocities against civilians. The Japanese butchered an estimated 150,000 male "war prisoners," massacred an additional 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, many of whom were mutilated or killed in the process.
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Thousands of Jewish businesses were destroyed. 100 Jews killed and 26,000 sent to concentration camps. Translate to "Night of Broken Glass."
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German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland.
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They became known as the Allies. There was little that could of been done to slow Hitler in Poland. And even before the fighting could happen, Hitler was already planning his attack.
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Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II.
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British cryptologists breaks the secret code used by the German army to direct ground-to-air operations on the Eastern front.
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HItlers army circled the city of Liningrad and just waited till the people in the town starved to death.
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Japanese aircraft launch a surprise attack on American naval forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. United States lost 8 American battleships, 3 Cruisers and 3 Destroyers destroyed; 2344 killed, 876 wounded, 966 missing.
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The United States declare war on Japan.
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Took place because the Japanese needed to be stopped from invading Port Moresby on the island of New Guinea. For the first time, the Japanese had been stopped.
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Americans destroy four Japanese aircraft carriers at the Battle of Midway.
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After defeating Italy and Germany in the North African Campaign of World War II, the United States and Great Britain, the leading Allied powers, looked ahead to the invasion of occupied Europe and the final defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Allies gained control of a 60-mile strip.
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Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign involved 287000 U.S. Army troops against 130000 Japanese soldiers.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin.
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This day marked the formal end of the war in Europe. VE Day!
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The atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and killed over 73,000 people.
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After the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese finally surrender.
