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After faking a train car accident Manchuria Japan uses it as a catalyst to invade and take over.
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Italy begins to invade and annex Ethiopia.
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Italy finishes their attack and annexes Ethiopia.
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Italy and Germany begin talks about an alliance.
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Germany and Italy officialy become allies.
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Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany sign the Anti-Comitern pact. This basically said they were prepared for the Soviet Union to fall and stating what they would do afterwords.
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Japan invades China and initiates World War 2 in the Pacific.
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Germany adopts Austria into the Anschluss ( the trying to adopt Austria since 1918 )
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A pact made by Italy, Great Britain, France, and Germany that made the Czechoslovak Republic give up a place called the Sudentenland to Germany considering before World War 2 it was part of Germany.
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Under German Pressure the Slovaks declare independence and Germany invades Czech land in violation of the Munich Pact.
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Great Britain and France sign off saying if anyone goes through and invades Poland's borders they will declare war.
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Italy invades and annexes Albania.
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The Soviet Union and Germany sign a nonaggression pact and a secret covodil that says how they will split up Poland
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Germany invades Poland initiating World War 2.
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Honoring their agreement Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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The Soviet Union invades Poland from the Eastern side.
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Warsaw surrenders. Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and The Soviet Union split up Poland.
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The Soviet Union invades Finland. Initiating the Winter War. Finland sues for an Armistice and flees to their small coastline near the Arctic Ocean.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders the day of the attack. Norway holds out until June 9.
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Germany attacks Western Europe and invades France. The Netherlands surrender on May 14 and Belgium surrenders on May 28. France signs an armistice allowing Germany to have the Eastern half and the Antlantic coastline.
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Italy enters the war and invades France on the Southern side.
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The Soviet Union occupies the Baltic States on June 14–18, engineering Communist coup d’états in each of them on July 14–15, and then annexing them as Soviet Republics on August 3–6.
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The Soviet Union forces Romania to cede the eastern province of Bessarabia and the northern half of Bukovina to the Soviet Ukraine.
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The air war often called the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.
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Germany and Italy arbitrate a decision on the division of the disputed province of Transylvania between Romania and Hungary. The loss of northern Transylvania forces Romanian King Carol to abdicate in favor of his son, Michael, and brings to power a dictatorship under General Ion Antonescu.
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Italy invades British controlled Egypt from Italian controlled Libya.
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Italy, Germany, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact making them the Axis Powers.
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Italy invades Greece from Albania.
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Hungary joins the Axis Powers.
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Romania joins the Axis Powers.
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Slovakia joins the Axis Powers.
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The first set of Afrika Korps arrive in Northern Africa.
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Bulgaria joins the Axis Powers.
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Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria all invade Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia surrenders April 17. Germany and Italy invade Greece. Greece falls in early June.
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Germany along with all its axis allies, excluding Bulgaria, invade the Soviet Union. The Finns join in and capture Rostov by November.
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The Soviet Union launches a massive offense driving back the Germans away from Moscow.
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In an epic bombing, Japan destroys all of Pearl Harbor.
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The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II. Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), and British Singapore.
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All the axis powers declare war on the U.S.
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U.S. begins bombing and doesn't stop until surrender.
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Allied forces stop the Japanese naval advance at Midway.
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Germans launch another offensive on The Soviet Union driving into Stalingrad.
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Japan is stopped on their way to Australia in the Solomon islands.
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Germman forces are defeated in Egypt pushing them back into Libya.
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US and British troops land at several points on the beaches of Algeria and Morocco in French North Africa. The failure of the Vichy French troops to defend against the invasion enables the Allies to move swiftly to the western border of Tunisia, and triggers the German occupation of southern France on November 11.
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The Soviet Union makes a final push and surrounds the city of Stalingrad. Not allowed to retreat the German army is eventually forced to surrender under lack of supplies.
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Tunisia is forced into surrender by the allies and the North Africa Campaign ends.
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The allies invade Sicily and own it by mid august.
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The leader of the French, Mussolini, is deposed and arrested for ruining the pride of Italy
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Upon hearing of Italy's surrender Germany comes in and takes over. Establishing a regime under Mussolini who had been freed by German Commandos.
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The Soviet Union liberates Kiev.
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Allied troops land just south of Rome in Italy.
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Fearing Hungary's retirement from the Axis powers Hungary is overtaken and reestablished with a pro German Prime Minister.
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Allied forces liberate Rome. Using Italy in 6 weeks they could drop bombs on Eastern Germany.
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Allied Forces successfully take the Normandy beaches of Northern France.
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The Soviet Union launches a massive offense and begins to take back Poland.
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The Normandy Beach line is broken and American Forces race for Paris.
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The Home Army gang in Warsaw attempts to take down the German Government before the Soviets get there but are greeted with failure.
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The Allied Forces begin to take back Southern France.
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The appearance of Soviet troops on the Prut River induces the Romanian opposition to overthrow the Antonescu regime. The new government concludes an armistice and immediately switches sides in the war. The Romanian turnaround compels Bulgaria to surrender on September 8, and the Germans to evacuate Greece, Albania, and southern Yugoslavia in October.
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The Allied Forces attack Paris and liberate it of German control.
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Finland concludes their armistice with Germany and leaves the Axis powers.
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Underground gangs interrupt negotiations of surrender between the Soviets and Hungary
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The Germans launch one last offensive attempting to disrupt the Allies and take back Bulgaria,
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The Soviet Union takes Warsaw and the rest of Poland.
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Berlin is surrounded by the Soviet army.
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Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders ending WW2 in Europe.
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders and WW2 ends.