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Japan invaded China
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 18 September 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. After the war, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo. -
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The Anschluss = Germany taking over Austria)
Anschluss, German: “Union”, political union of Austria with Germany, achieved through annexation by Adolf Hitler in 1938. Mooted in 1919 by Austria, Anschluss with Germany remained a hope (chiefly with Austrian Social Democrats) during 1919–33, after which Hitler's rise to power made it less attractive. -
Invasion of Poland
this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler tried to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war -
The Neutrality Act of 1939
After a very heated debate in Congress. In November of 1939, a final Neutrality Act passed. This act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of cash-and-carry. -
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The Fall of France
On September 3, 1939 France had declared war on Germany, following the invasion of its ally Poland. In early September 1939, France launched the Saar Offensive which stalled. -
The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was an important battle in World War II. After Germany and Hitler had conquered most of Europe also France the only major country left to fight them was Great Britain. -
US Oil Embargo on Japan
Responding to Japanese occupation of key airfields in Indochina following an agreement between Japan and Vichy France, the U.S. froze Japanese assets on July 26, 1941, and on August 1 established an embargo on oil and gasoline exports to Japan. -
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The attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. -
The Bataan Death March
march in the Philippines of some 66 miles that 76,000 prisoners of war (66,000 Filipinos, 10,000 Americans) were forced by the Japanese military to endure in April 1942, during the early stages of World War II. -
Battle of Midway Island
Battle of Midway, (June 3–6, 1942), World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. -
Battle of Stalingrad
successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad , Russia, U.S.S.R. , during World War II. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favour of the Allies.J -
D-Day (operation overload)
On June 6, 1944, in Operation Overlord, the Allied forces landed troops on Normandy beaches for the largest amphibious assault in history, beginning the march eastward to defeat Germany. From that point on, the Allies would begin to drive into Germany that ultimately destroyed the Nazi regime on May 7, 1945. -
The Yalta Conference
It was a meeting of three World War II allies U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The trio met in February 1945 in the resort city of Yalta, located along the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula. -
V-E Day
V-E Day was observed on May 8, 1945, in Great Britain, Western Europe, the United States and Australia, and on May 9 in the Soviet Union and New Zealand. V-E Day brings bac the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied forces in 1945 ending World War II in Europe. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, during World War II , an American bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90% of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
Three days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9 a 21-kiloton plutonium device known as "Fat Man.” On the day of the bombing, an estimated 263,000 were in Nagasaki, including 240,000 Japanese residents, 9,000 Japanese soldiers were killed. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
On August 20, 1968 the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. Although the Soviet Union's action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist bloc.
