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German-Italian Axis
Durning a speach itlay's leader Benito Mussolini Referred to the existence of a "German-Italian Axis". -
Japan and Nazi Germany
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Hiltler Invides Europe To A Conference
As his self-imposed october 1 deadline for occupation of the sudetenland apporaches, Adolf Hiltler invites Italian learder's Duce Bentito Mussolini, French Premier Edourd Deladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlian to one last conference in Munich. -
The Polish and Czech Ultimatum
German troops march into the sudetenland. The Polish government gives the Czech goverment an ultimatum that Zaolzie region must be handed over within twenty-four hours. The Czechs havd little choice but to comply -
Soviet Union and Germany Treaty Annex
The treaty that the soviets and the germans signed gave germany new areas of land that included Finland, Estonia, latvia, eastern Poland, north-east procince of romania. After the annex luithuania was ressigngs to the soviets. -
Beginnining of WWII
Opening shots of world war II and invasion of poland were heard all over th world. -
Soviet Union invades poland
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a Soviet military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939. On that morning, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east. The invasion and battle lasted for the following 20 days and ended on 6 October 1939 with the two-way division and annexation of the entire territory of the Second Polish Republic by both Germany and the Soviet Union. -
Germany invades Norwayand Denmark
In april 9,1940, German warships enter major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, German forces occupy Copenhagen, among other Danish cities. German forces were able to slip through the mines Britain had laid around Norwegian ports because local garrisons were ordered to allow the Germans to land unopposed. The order came from a Norwegian commander loyal to Norway’s pro-fascist former foreign minister Vidkun Quisling. -
Hitler Gains Victory Over France
On June 22, 1940, Germany and France signed an armistice in the forest of Compiègne. The treaty provided that hostilities between the two nations would end six hours after the signing of an armistice treaty between France and Italy, Germany’s axis partner. -
The Battle of Britain begins
After the occupation of France by Germany, Britain knew it was only a matter of time before the Axis power turned its sights across the Channel. And on July 10, 120 German bombers and fighters struck a British shipping convoy in that very Channel, while 70 more bombers attacked dockyard installations in South Wales. Although Britain had far fewer fighters than the Germans–600 to 1,300–it had a few advantages, such as an effective radar system, which made the prospects of a German sneak attack un -
Germany greatest army invades the Soviet Union
Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. The destruction of the Soviet Union by military force, the permanent elimination of the perceived Communist threat to Germany, and the seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for long-term German settlement had been a core policy of the Nazi movement since the 1920s. -
Pearl Harbor bombed
On December 7, 1941,at 7:55 A.M hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
The United States declares war on Japan
On December 8, 1941, the day after Japanese forces attacked the American military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Franklin Roosevelt addressed Congress and asked for a Declaration of War with Japan. The Senate and House of Representatives approved the war declaration unanimously with the exception of one vote - Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin became the first member of Congress to vote "no" on both the declaration of war on Germany during World War I and the declaration of war on Japan in 1941 - an
