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Japan invades Manchuria
Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War 2. -
Hitler becomes Chanceller
Once Hitler became chanceller he quickly dismantled Germany's democratic Weimar Republic. Established the "third Reich". -
The Munich Agreemet
The Munich agreement wasa a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechslovakia. -
Germans invade Poland
German forces invaded Poland from the south, north, and west. As Germans advanced, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases. -
Germans invade Norway
Civil rule was effectively assumed by the Reichskommissariat Norwegen which acted in collaboration with a pro-German puppet government, while the Norwegian king and legitimate government continued to operate in exile from London. -
Germans invade France
It was a sucssecful German invasion of France and the low countries, defeating primarily french forces. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940 -
Germans invade Soviet Union
Three army groups, including more than three million German soldiers, supported by 650,000 troops from Germany's allies, and later augmented by units from Italy, Croatia, Slovakia and Hungary, attacked the Soviet Union across a broad front, from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the US Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the empire of Japan was planning in southeast Asia agaianst overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
Japanese forces successfully invaded and occupied Tulagi, although several of their supporting warships were surprised and sunk or damaged by aircraft from the US fleet carrier Yorktown. -
Battle of Midway
The Japanese hoped that another demoralizing defeat would force the U.S. to capitulate in the Pacific War and thus ensure Japanese dominance in the Pacific. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
On 7 August 1942, Allied forces landed on the islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida in the southern Solomon Islands with tthe goal of denying their use by the Japanese to threaten the supply and communication routes between the US, Australia, and New Zealand. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the south-western Soviet Union. -
Operation Torch
It was the Birtish-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African campaign of the second World War. -
Battle of Kursk
The German offensive was code-named Operation Citadel and led to one of the largest armoured clashes in history, the Battle of Prokhorovka. The German offensive was countered by two Soviet counter offensives, Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev and Operation Kutuzov. -
Italy surrenders
Italy surrendered to Allied forces, it declared war on Nazi Germany. -
D-Day
The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the invasion of German-occupied western Europe, led to the restoration of the French Republic, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war. -
Operation Market Garden
It was an unsuccessful allie military operation fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the 2 World War. It was the largest airborn operation up to that time. -
Battle of the Bulge
It was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the western front toward the end of World War 2 in Europe. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The United States fought and captured the island Iwo Jima from the Japenese Empire. It was the only battle by the US marine corps in which the Japenese combat deaths were thrice those of the Americans throughout the battle. -
Germany Surrenders (VE Day)
It was the public holiday to mark the formal acceptance by the allies of World War 2 of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
An American B-29 dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japenese city Hiroshima. It wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. -
Japan Surrenders (VJ Day)
It was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. This ended the World War 2.
