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Japan invades Manchuria
when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
Adolf Hitler was appointed as the chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg. -
The Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. -
Germans invade Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War in Poland and the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiß in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. -
Germans invade Norway
The Norwegian Campaign was a military campaign that was fought in Norway during the Second World War between the Allies and Germany, after the latter's invasion of the country. -
Germans invade France
In the Second World War, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries, -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom. -
Germans invade Soviet Union
Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest German military operation of World War II. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan. -
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
was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War -
Battle of Kursk
was a World War II engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in the Soviet Union during July and August 1943 -
Italy surrenders.
The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe. -
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
was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. -
Battle of the Bulge
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 II in Europe. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Germany Surrenders (VE Day)
V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II. -
Japan Surrenders (VJ Day)
is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event.
