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  • Period: 1942 BCE to 1943 BCE

    Battle of Stalingrad

    Successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd ), Russia, U.S.S.R., during World War II. Russians consider it to be one of the greatest battles of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict.
    July 17, 1942
    February 2, 1943
  • Period: 1936 BCE to 1936 BCE

    Pacto Antikomintern ( ii guerra mundial )

    Between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, both countries pledged to take steps to protect themselves from threats posed by the Soviet-led Comintern or the Cominter. 25/11/1936
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    Scramble for Africa

    Some European countries Africa and attempted to colonize it. About 90 percent of Africa was under European rule. Before the conquest of Africa began, only 10% of the continent was under European control. By 1914, only three countries had escaped colonial rule:Ethiopia, Liberia and Somalia. Many historians attribute the start of the scramble to a meeting in 1884 called the "Berlin Conference." The purpose of the conference was to control and regulate how Europeans would colonize and trade Africa.
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    Putsch de Múnich

    Putsch de Múnich
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    Japanese invasion of China (Second Sino-Japanese War)

    Conflict when China began a full-scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese influence in its territory
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    Munich Agreements

    Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia.
    30/9/1938
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    Germany incorporates Austria (Anschluss)

    Merging Austria and Nazi Germany into one nation.
    11/3/1938
    11/3/1938
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    Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy (Steel Pact)

    The Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy, was a military and political alliance between Italy and Germany.
    It was initially a tripartite military alliance between Japan, Italy and Germany.
    22/5/1939
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    Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the USSR (Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact)

    Representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (also called the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact), a mutual promise made by the two leaders guaranteeing that neither would attack the other.
    23/8/1939
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    Germany invades Poland. Start of World War II

    1/9/1939
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    Italy invades and annexes Albania

    Italy is annexed to Albania. In the same year Germany, 1936 Chronological frieze of the Pacific War fascist Italy invades, conquers and annexes Ethiopia.
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    Government of Winston Churcill as Prime Minister

    10/5/1940 - 26/7/1945
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    Wannsee Conference

    The Wannsee Conference formalised the Nazis’ policy of the extermination of Jews in occupied Europe.
    was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and leaders of the Schutzstaffel , held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942.
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    Dissolution of the Third International (Comintern)

    15/5/1943
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    Tehran Conference

    Among the leaders Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formed the side of the Allies.
    28 de noviembre y el 1 de diciembre de 1943
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    Verona Process

    impeachment carried out in the city of Verona by an extraordinary special court of the Italian Social Republic against the former members of the Fascist Grand Council who had voted for the removal of the dictator Benito Mussolini in the session of July 25, 1943.
    January 8 and 10, 1944
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    Allied landing in Normandy

    The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.
    Tuesday, 6 June 1944
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    Paris Liberation

    19/8/1944 - 25/8/1944
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    Fourth Moscow Conference

    Meeting in Moscow between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin from 9 October to 19 October 1944.
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    Yalta Conference

    Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe.
    4/2/1945 - 11/2/1945
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    Battle of Berlin

    One of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II.Following the Vistula Oder Offensive of January, February 1945, the Red Army had temporarily halted on a line 60 km (37 mi) east of Berlin.
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    Potsdam Conference

    Held in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945 to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.