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This invasion by Japan was due to Japan wanting to control of the providince to eventuallly control all of China.
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Controllled by Benito Mussolini, the invasion of Ethiopia was to gain more land and prestige to Italy, due to their loss aganist Ethiopia in the late nintenth century.
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Japan invades China for the second time to again gain more land due to Japan having small territory on a island. Again the League of Nations could not help China.
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After Austria refused to agree to join Germany and Austria a union, Hitler meet with the leader Schuschnigg. Hitler's deal included appointing known Nazis into positions of great power in Austria. He accepted this deal and consequently the Nazi leaders allowed German soldiers into Austria.
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Hitler met with pro Nazi leader Henlein about control of the Sudetenland. Hitler wanted the freedom to profess Nazi ideology in Sudetenland.
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Henlein agreed to allowing Hitler to take Sudetenland and they signed the Munich Agreement.
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The Pact included the agreement to not attack each other or help aid a country attacking the other and to solve all diagreements by negotiation.
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Hitler invaded Poland in order to gain more land and completely rule Poland. He used his blitzkreig strategy for the first time which involved excessive bombing.
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Germany attacked Britain and they locked into the largest bombing campaign to that date. Britain's air victory protected it from a ground invasion.
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The axis powers were formed: Germany, Italy, and Japan. They become allies after signing The Tripartite Pact.
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Nearly hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked Pearl Harbor near Hawaii. More than 2,000 American soldiers and sailors died.
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The day after the Pearl Harbor attack, president Franklin Rooosevelt announced on the radio "a day which will live in infamy". He declared war on Japan.
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Thanks to the US's advances in code breaking, they were able to counterambush Japan's attack. The victory was the turning point of the war and moved the allies into the offensive.
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The battle of Stalingrad successfully stopped the Germans from entering the USSR. It was the blooodiest battles in history including nearly 2 million military and civilian casualties.
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Dwight Eisenhower officially annonces the surrender of the italian troops.
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American,British, and Canadian forces landed on France's Normandy beaches to attack the Germans. 156,000 soldiers landed.
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The troops of the US and France freed the people of Paris from Germany control.
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Trying to avoid persecution, Mussolini attempts to escape to Spain. He is captured along the way and taken to Mezzegra.There he was executed along with 15 other leading facists in retaliation.
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Hitler commited suicide in his bunker along with his wife, Eva Braun of two days, and his dog, Blondi. He and his wife both took cyanide capsules and Hitler then shot himself with his pistol.
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Known as Victory in Europe, this day both the US and Great Britain celebrate the defeat of the Nazi Party. More than 13,000 British prisoners of war were released and sent back to Great Britain.
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The world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and wiped out 90% of the city. 80,000 were killed and many more would later die of radiation poisoning.
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The next day after the Hiroshima bombing, the Soviets declared war on Japan. More than 1 million Soviet soldiers poured into Japanese controlled, Manchuria. They took on the army of 700,000 Japanese soldiers.
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Only three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the Japanese city of Nagaskai has an atomic bomb dropped. Killing at least 40,000 and many more later to radiation poisoning.
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Japan surrenders to the sllies aboard the USS Missouri. This event ends WW2.
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The Nuremberg trials were held to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. They were held in Nuremberg, Germany.