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linkFascist Italy invades Ethiopia and conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.
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.Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany.
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fHonoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France in June on the 21st.
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linkGermany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
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linkGermany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria invade and destroyed Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia surrenders on April 17.
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linkJapan bombs Pearl Harbor.
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linkThe U.S declares war on japan entering World War II.
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U.S. troops stop the Japanese island-hopping advance towards Australia at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
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British troops defeat the Germans and Italians at El Alamein in Egypt, sending the Axis forces in a crazy retreat across Libya to the eastern border of Tunisia.
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The Fascist Grand Council takes out Benito Mussolini, letting Italian marshall Pietro Badoglio to make a new government.
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The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in an attempted to re-conquer Belgium and split the Allied forces along the German border. By January 1, 1945, the Germans retreated.
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Hitler commits suicide.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.