World War 2

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    World War 2

  • Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    Mussolini's Italy invaded Ethiopia on October 3, 1935 from Eritrea and Italian Somaliland without first declaring war. (U.S. Library of Congress) prior to this, tensions had been rising between Italy and Ethiopia including a small battle in December 1934 at Welwel in the Ogaden when Ethiopia tried to challenge the boundaries put in place by Italy.
    On October 7, 1935 The League of Nations declared the attack an agression by Italy but did not take action. Italy would continue to occupy Ethiopia.

  • Occupation of the Rhineland

  • Start of Spanish Civil War

  • Air raid on Guernica

  • The Anschluss

  • Munich Conference

  • Annexation of Czechoslovakia

  • Kristallnacht (start of Holocaust)

  • End of Spanish Civil War

  • Formation of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis

  • Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

  • Invasion of Poland

  • Fall of France

  • Formation of Vichy France

  • Formation of the "Free French"

  • Battle of Britain (start)

  • Operation Barbarosa (start)

  • The Soviet Union drives out Nazi troops

  • Attack on Pear Harbor

  • The battle of Midway

  • Battle of Stalingrad (start)

  • The Battle of El Alamein

  • Battle of Stalingrad (end)

  • D-Day

  • Battle of the Bulge

  • End of the Holocaust (liberation at Auschwitz)

  • The battle of Iwo Jima

  • V-E Day

  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki

  • V-J Day