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  • Japan invades Manchuria

    when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitlers Nazi party became the largest elected party in the German Reichstag leading to his appointment as chqncellor

  • The Munich Agreement

    settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia. After his success in absorbing Austria into Germany proper in March 1938, Adolf Hitler looked covetously at Czechoslovakia, where about three million people in the Sudeten area were of German origin.

  • Germans invade Poland

    The German attack was code-named Operation White (Fall Weiss). The attack on Poland started at 04.45 hours when blitzkrieg tore through the Polish military and by the end of the month Poland had surrendered to the Germans and the country was occupied.

  • Germans invade Norway

    Germany invaded Denmark and Norway, ostensibly as a preventive manoeuvre against a planned, and openly discussed, Franco-British occupation of Norway.

  • Germans invade France

    The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes and then along the Somme valley to cut off and surround the Allied units that had advanced into Belgium.

  • Battle of Britain

    the summer and autumn of 1940. The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces,[17] and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date.

  • Germans invade Soviet Union

    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.

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

    on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.

  • Battle of the Coral Sea

    The battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other.

  • Battle of Midway

    Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare."[10] It was Japan's first naval defeat since the Battle of Shimonoseki Straits in 1863.

  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II. It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the south-western Soviet Union.

  • Operation Torch

    was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942.

  • Battle of Kursk

    he Battle of Kursk was a World War II engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk (450 kilometres or 280 miles southwest of Moscow) in the Soviet Union during July and August 1943.

  • D-Day

    he largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the invasion of German-occupied western Europe, led to the restoration of the French Republic, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war.

  • Operation Market Garden

    was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War.

  • Battle of the Bulge

    was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.

  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire.

  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945.