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Japan invades Manchuria
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Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia
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Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation.
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Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union.
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Japan invades China, initiating World War 2 in the PAcific
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign Munich agreement.
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Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement.
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Germany invades Poland, intiating WW2 in Europe.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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Soviet Union invades Poland from the east.
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Italy enters war and invades France.
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The Battle of Britain ends in Germany's defeat.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Triparite Pact.
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Bulgaria joins the Axis Powers.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
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Germany and its Axis Powers declare war on the U.S.
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U.S. navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the Pacific.
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Germans launch massive tank offensive near the Soviet Union.
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U.S. and British troops land on Sicily.
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Allied troops land on the beaches of Salerno near Naples.
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Soviets launch final offensive attack in Berlin.
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Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets.
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U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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Japan surrenders, ending World War 2.