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Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.
Germans wanted to expand their terittory so they started invading small places. -
Japanese invasion of China
War merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Germany helped in this war. -
Germany invaded Poland
WWII officially began -
Denmark and Norway invaded by Germany
Germans were able to slip through the mines Britain had laid on Norway. Oslo demanded Norway's surrender. -
Italy enters
Italy invades southern France. -
Axis power were formed
Tripartite Pact was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan. -
Italy invades Greece from Albania
Proves to be a disastrous military campaign for the Duce’s forces. -
Lend Lease Act
For providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. Attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
Battle of Midway
Crucial and decivise naval battle in the Pacific Threate -
Battle of Stalingrad
MAJOR battle of World War II which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad -
Battle of the Bismarck Sea
Aircraft of the U.S. Fifth Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force attacked a Japanese convoy carrying troops to Lae, New Guinea. -
Battle of Kursk
Unsuccessful German assault on the Soviet salient around the city of Kursk, in western Russia -
Allies invasion of Italy
Invasion of Italy was the Allied landing on mainland Italy, by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group -
Italy declares war on Germany
One month after Italy surrendered to Allied forces. It was led into the war by Benito Mussolini. -
D-day
allied forces invaded northern France, beach landings in Normandy. -
Japan surrenders
Americans captured Okinawa, a Japanese island from which the Allies could launch an invasion of the main Japanese home islands. The invasion of Japan promised to be the bloodiest seaborne attack of all time -
Soviet Union Liberates Aushwitz
Most of its population was evacuated and sent on a death march. The prisoners remaining at the camp were liberated -
V.E. Day
Victory in Europe. Marks the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
United States bombs Japan
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. United States thought that they bombs would end the war. -
V-J Day
Victory of Japan. Formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri. Japan surrenders and ends World War II.
