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The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II.
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Agreement concluded first between Germany and Japan and then between Italy, Germany, and Japan (Nov. 6, 1937).
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Germany annexes Austria.
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German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
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The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom. The conflict was a result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
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1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its border with German-controlled territory.
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An agreement formulated by Italy’s foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries.
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Resulted in Soviet pyrrhic victory, Moscow Peace Treaty.
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Germany invaded Denmark and Norway, ostensibly as a preventive manoeuvre against a planned, and openly discussed, Franco-British occupation of Norway.
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Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister.
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The evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940, during World War II.
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Italy Declares War on France and Great Britain, after withholding formal allegiance to either side in the battle between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain.
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Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force which ended October 31, 1940
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The "Axis powers" formally took the name after the Tripartite Pact was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan on 27 September 1940, in Berlin.
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On this day, German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, Libya, with the newly ... to Libya along with the new Afrika Korps to take control.
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Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, in the largest German military operation of World War II.
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The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory.
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US declarres war on Japan after Pearl Harbor.
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A meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee.
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The forcible transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war.
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only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy.
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A major battle on the Eastern Front 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 Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.
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More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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On this day in History, oldiers land on Leyte Island, in the Philippines, as preparation for the major invasion.
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Victory in Europe Day, was the public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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Negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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Spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II.
