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Germans wanted to expand their terittory so they started invading small places.
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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.
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WWII officially began
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Germans were able to slip through the mines Britain had laid on Norway. Oslo demanded Norway's surrender.
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Italy invades southern France.
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Tripartite Pact was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Proves to be a disastrous military campaign for the Duce’s forces.
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For providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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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.
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Crucial and decivise naval battle in the Pacific Threate
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MAJOR battle of World War II which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad
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Aircraft of the U.S. Fifth Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force attacked a Japanese convoy carrying troops to Lae, New Guinea.
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Unsuccessful German assault on the Soviet salient around the city of Kursk, in western Russia
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Invasion of Italy was the Allied landing on mainland Italy, by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group
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One month after Italy surrendered to Allied forces. It was led into the war by Benito Mussolini.
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allied forces invaded northern France, beach landings in Normandy.
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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
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Most of its population was evacuated and sent on a death march. The prisoners remaining at the camp were liberated
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Victory in Europe. Marks the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. United States thought that they bombs would end the war.
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Victory of Japan. Formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri. Japan surrenders and ends World War II.
