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japan invaded Manchuria before the Mukden incident and establishment of Manchukuo as a Japanese puppet state
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the German government announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations.
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The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly today after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria
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in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II.
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a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan
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refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938
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an agreement concluded at Munich September 29, 1938, by Germany Great Britain, France and Italy. It provided cession to Germany of the Sudeten German territory of Czechoslovakia
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began with the German annexation of Czechoslovakia's border regions known collectively as the Sudetenland under terms outlined by the Munich Agreement.
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a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939 by foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov respectively.
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an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II.
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the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. In the six weeks from 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944.
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a military campaign of the Second World War in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force the Luftwaffe. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces