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The Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
he was given power by the people. -
mass-scale random murder, wartime rape, looting, and arson committed by the Imperial Japanese Army against the residents of Nanjing. -
settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia. -
Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population. -
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact -
Germany invaded Poland to regain lost territory and ultimately rule their neighbor to the east. -
Dunkirk is a small town on the coast of France that was the scene of a massive military campaign during World War II. -
Paris fell to Nazi Germany on June 14, 1940, one month after the German Wehrmacht stormed into France -
a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. -
required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. -
code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union -
japan staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, decimating the US Pacific Fleet -
26.2-mile march/run is conducted at the White Sands Missile Range -
major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. The battle was marked by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids. -
a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army -
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Ardennes Offensive was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II -
meeting of three World War II allies: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. -
the major battle of the Pacific War was fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and the United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. -
Soviet forces near his command bunker in central Berlin on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler commits suicide. Berlin falls to the Soviets within days. -
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 -
the time when the first nuke was dropped on japan. -
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.