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Manchuria was invaded and China too
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Italy occupied Ethiopia, for expanding their colonial empire.
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Italy & Germany took part in the Spanish Civil War by supporting them with weapons and soldiers
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Ger developed a policy of territorial expansion aimed at crating a vast empire of lands inhabited by germanic people (Third Reich)
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Germany entered into the Rome-Berlin Axis alliance with Italy
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Germany entered into the Anti-Comiterm Pact with Japan
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by remilitarising the Rhineland
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Germany used military force to occupy Austria (Anschluss)
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In September Germany demanded Czechoslovakia hand over the Sudetenland, that was populated by a small german minority
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Was covened by Hitler following protests by France, UK and other powers over his policy of expansionism. It ended with the democracies acepting
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The Rome-Berlin Axis alliance was renewed under the name of Pact of Steel
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To prevent the USSR from joining forces with France and Geat Britain and heleping Poland, Hitler signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact with Stallin.
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Ger army invaded most of west Europe,UK was the only country to have resisted ,the germany air force bombed ports and cities(battle of Britain)
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UK resisted the attack, Hitler was forced to abord the mission, he ordered the blockade of the British iles and began the battle of the Atlantic to cut off british supply lines.
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Hitler launched opperation Barbarossa and attacked Russia reaching the gates of Moscow, in response the USSR joined the allied forces against axis powers
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They started the jewish massacres in the USSR and eastern Europe
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After USSR and US entered the conflict the war took a decessive turn.The americans stoped Japanese advances in the Pacific and started reconquering occupied territories.
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The nazi leaders planned the "Final Solution" (eliminating all the jews)
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The german assault in Stalingrad was Hitler`s first mayor failure
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The three major allies (UK,US and USSR) met for the first time. They took joint military measures to speed up the end of the war. There were: Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill
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To force Japan to surrender,US president Truman decided to use the atomic bomb which was dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Yalta. Agreed denazification & partition of Germany and Austria into 4 ocuppied zones & division of Berlin & Viena
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Yalta. Organisation of democratic elections in liberal countries & creation of international peacekeeping body (UN)
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Postdam. New leaders ( Atlee,Truman&Stalin): return all European territories annexed by Ger, dismantle military industry,persecute/punish all nazi leaders
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Peace treaties with Germany´s others allies were drawn up
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Was signed lately, the year the Allied occupation ended
