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Japan invades Manchuria
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From appeasrment to the end of the war
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neutrality acts of the united states
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Italky takes over Ethiopia
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Hitler enters France (Rhine Land)
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Anschluss of Austria
Union of Austria and germany. It violated the versailles treaty and created a brief warscare -
Munich Conference
British and French leaders chose appeasment again. They coved into Hitlers' demands and then persuaded the Czechs to surrender the sudetenland -
Hitler takes over czechoslvakia
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
Hitler and Stalin anoounced nonaggression fight and divide up Poland between them. -
Invasion of Poland
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Genesis of WWII
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Hitler launch the blitzkrieg on Norway and Belgium
Blitzkrieg, lightining war, was used against Poland. It improved tank and airpower technology. -
Hitler slams Nethrelands
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Germany enters France
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France falls
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Axis powers takes over North Africa and the Balkans.
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Operation sea lion and blitz on london
Invasion of Britain. Hitler launched a massive air strikes against the island nation, much of London was destroyed and thousands of people were killed -
Operation Sea Lion fails
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Hitler enacts Operation of Barbarossa
A plan took its name from the medieval German leader Frederick Barbarossa. Hitler launched a new blitzkrieg in the Soviet Union and killed two and a half million -
Germany's siege of leningrad
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japan attacks Pearl Harbor
Japan surprised the United states when airplanes bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day America declared war on japan and in return Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. -
U.S declare war on Japan
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Germany and Italy declare war on the US
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Japan loses the battle of the Coral Sea
The battle lasted for 5 days. Attacks from the allies were carried out by planes launched from aircraft carriers. More importantly the Americans sank one Japans aircraft carrier -
Japan loses the battle of Midway
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The big 3 meet
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed to focus on ending war in Europe before Asia -
Hitler launches new Offensive on stalingrad
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Germans Surrender At Stalingard
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Allies seize North Africa
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Halian surrenders to Allies
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Kamikaze mission
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Yalta Conference
It was a conference between the big 3 at Yalta. They planned an atmosphere distrust -
Battle of the Bulge
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D-Day Assault
The allies chose D-Day for the invention of France. Planes dropped paratroops behind enemy lines and thousands of ships ferried allied troops across the English channel -
Cold War Begins
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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British and American forces cross Rhine battle of Okinawa
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FDR dies and Truman becomes President
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Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surenders
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V-E Day
Victory in Europe and that’s when officially the war ended in Europe -
Charter of the United Nations
Countries formed a world organization to play a greater role in world affairs -
First test of the Mahnhattan Project/Truman warns Japan to surrender
Allied scientists conducted research of bombing or racing to harness the atom. The allied countries warned Japan to surrender or they will face a complete destruction, but the Japanese ignored the warning -
U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima
America plans dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The bomb flattened four square miles and instantly killed 70,000 people. -
U.S. drops A-Bomb on Nagasaki
Japanese leaders didn’t respond or surrender so the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This time more than 40,000 people were killed and it led Japan to surrender -
Japan surrenders
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Formal Peace Treaty signed on the American Battleship Missouri
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Nuremberg trials
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Truman Doctrine adopted
A doctrine named after President Truman to contain communism. -
Marshall plan enacted
To beat communism and strengthen democracy, the US offered money or aid packages to help countries rebuild. -
The division of Germany
The soviets were angery because the Western Allies help rebuild West Germany's economy. The Soviet's controlled East Germany. -
The Berlin Airlift
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NATO signed
Countries pledged to help one another -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet's responded to NATO and formed their own military alliances.
