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Hitlers Control
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When Japan invaded China
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. -
The Anschluss
Germany took control of Austria. This event caused Hitler to violate the Treaty of Versailles. -
The Neutrality Act of 1939
This Act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of “cash-and-carry.” -
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World War 2
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Invasion of Poland
The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland. -
The Fall of France
Was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. -
The Battle of Britian
Before a planned sea and airborne invasion of Britain during the Second World War. -
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The Holocaust
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US Oil Embargo on Japan
Established an embargo on oil and gasoline exports to Japan. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor
A surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
The Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war. -
Battle of Midway Island
Was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
D-Day (Operation Overlord)
The Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
The Yalta Conference
The World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. -
V-E Day
Celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki
On the day of the bombing, an estimated 263,000 were in Nagasaki, including 240,000 Japanese residents, and 9,000 Japanese soldiers. -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
It had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist bloc
