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Japanese troops killed remnant Chinese soldiers in violation of the laws of war, murdered Chinese civilians, raped Chinese women, and destroyed or stole foreign property. -
Seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries, Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in search of these materials in order for the expansion of power to take place. -
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. Thanks to the majority of the electoral votes coming from Nazi members themselves. -
A settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy allowed Germany to take over the Sudetenland with the Czechoslovakian borders. -
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses, and killed several innocent Jews. -
The two countries involved with creating and signing the pact agreed to not go against each other or attack each other at any given time. -
Germany invades Poland. -
The Fall of France, was the German invasion of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. -
The Battle of Dunkirk was fought around the French port of Dunkirk. -
For eight months the Luftwaffe dropped bombs on London and other cities across Britain. -
The United States instituted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which required all men (ages of 21 and 45) to register for the draft. -
The invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and some of its Axis allies. -
Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad. -
177 aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. -
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army where the prisoners were forced to march until they died. -
A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater. -
A major battle in which the United States eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army. -
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations of the Allied invasion. -
German forces launched a surprise attack on Allied forces in the forested Ardennes region in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. -
The meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss war conflicts and growing concerns. -
A major battle of the Pacific War was fought on the island of Okinawa by the United States against the Imperial Japanese Army. -
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany. -
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It also marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II. Also contributed to ending the war.