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Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese Troops in Manchuria. It was an attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control of the entire province.
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President Paul von Hindenburg name Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany
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Settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia.
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A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as The Night of Broken Glass.
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Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and started World War II.
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Dunkirk, and the evacuation associated with the troops trapped on Dunkirk, was called a "miracle" by Winston Churchill. As the Wehrmacht swept through western Europe in the spring of 1940, using Blitzkrieg, both the French and British armies could not stop the onslaught. It was a realization of the war that was at hand
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Pearl Harbor, a harbor that is home to many United States battleships located in Oahu, Honolulu Hawaii, was bombed by the Japanese, bringing the U.S. into the Second World War
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Forced transfer of Filipino and American POWs by march to Balanga.
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Considered one of the most decisive battles of WWII. The Battle of Midway destroyed Japan’s naval strength when the Americans destroyed four of its aircraft carriers. Japan’s navy never recovered and it was on the defensive after this battle.
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160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy.
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German offfensive campaign launched thrugh Ardennes forests on the Western Homefront. Nazi Germany caught the Allies by surprise but the Allies Prevailed
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The Yalta Conference took place in Crimea, Russia from February 4–11, 1945, during WWII. At Yalta, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world.
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VE Day is Vicory in Europe Day. It oficiialy marked the end of WWII in Europe and the fall of Nazi Germany
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The atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, causing major damages and killing a large number of Japanese civilians, ultimately leading to the Japanese surrender
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V-J day was the day that Japan surrendered to the United States, officially eding World War II
