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Japan successfully invades Manchuria and unleashes its military and political forces. This was Japan's attempt to gain control over the whole province.
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Germany signed the Anti Cominterm Pact with Japan, going against the Soviet Union and Communist movement.
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Japan invaded China and by doing this, she established the war in the Pacific.
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich Agreement which makes the Czechoslovak Republic surrender the Sudetenland.
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Poland surrenders to Germany after her defeat.
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France and Britain declare war on Germany to gaurantee Poland's borders.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway; Denmark surrenders, while Norway holds out until June 6.
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Italy enters the war and invades France on June 21.
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The air war of the Battle of Britain, fought between the Germans and British, was won by the Royal Air Force in the end.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, becoming known as the Axis Powers.
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From Albania, Italy invades Greece.
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Bulgaria joins the Axis powers.
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Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on America.
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Nazi Germany and its Axis partners invade the Soviet Union.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, a chief American base.
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U.S. and British navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway.
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U.S. troops halt Japan 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.
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U.S. and British troops land at several points on the beaches of Algeria and Morrocco.
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The U.S. liberate Rome.
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British and American troops land on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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The non-communist underground Home Army rises up against Germany in hopes of liberating Warsaw before the Soviet Union troops arrived. However, they had to surrender to Germany in the beginning of October.
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U.S. land in the Phillippines.
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Nazi Germany at last surrendered to the Allies in Europe.
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The United States dropped boms on Hiroshima.
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America drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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Japan successfully surrendered to the Allies, ending World War II.
