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- The treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War 1 to an end. The treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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- Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945.
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- Japanese troops gathering outside Mukden, Manchuria, September 1931. Thus the year 1933 saw the League's failure to protect China against aggression, the breakdown of the disarmament conference, and the withdrawal of Japan and Germany.
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- The Nuremberg Laws were antiseptic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935, at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.
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- In response to the Ethiopian appeals, the League of Nations condemned the Italian invasion in 1935 and voted to impose economic sanctions on the aggressor. The sanctions remained ineffective because of general lack of support.
- Main People: Italy and Ethiopia
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- Conflict in Asia began well before the official start of World War 2. Seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries, Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931. By 1937 Japan controlled large sections of China, and accusations of war crimes against the Chinese became commonplace.
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- On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany.
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- The Sudetenland was desired by Germany not only for its territory, but also because a majority of its population were 'ethnically' German. In the summer of 1938 Hitler demanded the annexation of the Sudetenland into Germany.
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- The invasion of Poland, also known as the September campaign, 1939 defensive war and Poland campaign, was an attack on the Second Polish Republic by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War 2.
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- On September 3, 1939, in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.
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- An agreement formulated by Italy's foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries was reached on October 25, 1936. It was formalized by the Pact of Steel in 1939. The term Axis Powers came to include Japan as well.
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- agreement concluded by Germany, Italy, and Japan on September 27,1940, one year after the start of World War 2.
- It created a defense alliance between the countries and was largely intended to deter the United States from entering the conflict
- Main People: Joachim Von Ribbentrop
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- agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano and Saburo Kurusu
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- The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941.
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- In other words, the D in D-Day merely stands for Day. This coded designation was used for the day of any important invasion or military operation. Brigadier General Schultz reminds us that the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 was not the only D-Day of World War 2.
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- The German Instrument of Surrender was the legal document that effected the extinction of Nazi Germany and ended World War 2 in Europe.
- Main People: Alfred Jodl, Germany
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Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War 2 of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945, marking the end of World War 2 in Europe. -
- The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
- Main People: United States, Hiroshima
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- The consent of the United Kingdom was obtained for the bombing, as was required by the Quebec Agreement, and orders were issued on 25 July for atomic bombs to be used against Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. These targets were chosen because they were large urban areas that also held militarily significant facilities.
- United Kingdom, Nagasaki
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- Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War 2, in effect bringing the war to an end.
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- Japan surrendered because the Soviet Union entered the war. Japanese leaders said the bomb forced them to surrender because it was less embarrassing to say they had been defeated by a miracle weapon. The United States bombed 68 cities in the summer of 1945. -Main People: Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, and Yoshijro Umezu
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