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This breaks the Treaty of Versailles but Britain doesn’t respond because of the policy of appeasement. They hope that giving into Hitler means they won’t start another war
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This makes Japan and Germany allies. It states that they will both fight communism together (Russia)
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The prime minister of Britain meets Hitler in Munich to discuss this, agrees to let Hitler have Studetenland in an exchange for a promise that he won’t take over anything else.
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The war between Japan and China has been going on for a while now and Japan has won
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This make Japan mad as Germany had signed a pact with them saying they would team up and defeat Russia. Germany talks them around and they also form an alliance with Italy to assist each other with political, military or economic means.
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Start of WWII. Hitler uses a tactic called ‘Blitz Krieg’ or Lightning War. Britain and France make no real attempt to fight back and this period is known as the ‘phoney war’
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Japan wants total control of the pacific but is worried about USA so they decided to attack when they aren’t expecting it.
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Japanese aircraft strike the US Naval Base in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, destroying half the US fleet.
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The USA declares war on Japan and therefore Germany and Italy as well. Japan attacks Malaya and other British, Dutch and US colonies in Asia.
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Japan has Hong Kong, the Phillipines, Malaya, Singapore, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and Burma
