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Attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province, in order to eventually encompass all of East Asia. This proved to be one of the causes of World War II.
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Events of WWII
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European powers, but was purchased with their own money including taking over Ethiopia.
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It is of economic importance and militarily is still considered strategically significant. The Germans invaded and took it over.
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With the establishment of a dictatorship led by General Francisco Franco in the aftermath of the Civil War, all right-wing parties were fused into the structure of the Franco regime.
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Franco was a Spanish general, dictator and the leader of the Nationalist military rebellion in the Spanish Civil War, and totalitarian head of state of Spain.
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Europe, Africa, East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, but the war ended with their total defeat and dissolution.
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Japan invades China which then starts up the war in the Pacific Ocean.
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Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish-German border to more established lines of defence to the east.
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Sign treaty establishing the Axis powers.
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With the establishment of a dictatorship led by General Francisco Franco in the aftermath of the Civil War, all right-wing parties were fused into the structure of the Franco regime.
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Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania.
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The treaty contained promises of mutual military assistance between the nations in the event either was attacked by another European country.
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Germany violated the treaty by occupying the rest of Czechoslovakia.
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Because they had a treaty with Poland in which they had undertaken to help Poland if its independence was threatened by force.
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Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phony War.
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waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom and its campaign, was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force, especially Fighter Command.
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The attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor was a surpise attack which the United States was not ready for it fleeing the United States Warships back to bay.
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Major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union.
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The North African countries fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia.
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Although the initiative had been seized from the Germans some months before, so far the western Allies had been unable.
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The battle that ensued is known historically as The Battle of the Bulge. The courage and fortitude of the American Soldier was tested against great adversity.
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German surrender to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union took place in late April basically ending the war.
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The Allies of World War II created an atomic bomb which dropped on the cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Japan cities.