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Japan invaded Manchuria which is a northeast province of China which is rich in minerals.
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Italy invaded Ethiopia and conquered it in 1935 and the League of Nations was powerless to stop them.
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Japan invaded China during a Chinese civil war.
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Hitler promised not to invade anymore land if the Sudetenland was given to Germany.
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Hitler and Stalin agreed not to attack each other in order to control Europe.
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Germany invaded Poland using Blitzkrieg attacks.
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France and Great Britain declare war on Germany for invading Poland and violating the Munich agreement.
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France fell to Hitler in late June of 1940.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign a pact creating an alliance later known as the Axis Powers.
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Hitler invaded Russia through Poland.
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Japanese forces attacked the United States Pacific Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor. Attack was meant to cripple the U.S. fleet so that it could not interfere with Japan.
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The United States declared war on the Japanese Empire after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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James Doolittle led a raid on Tokyo with B-25 bombers which helped boost American morale.
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Japanese used Midway as a base to neutralize Pearl Harbor. After the battle power in the Pacific shifted towards the Allies.
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The Japanese advance into the Pacific was halted giving the United States the momentum to defeat the Japanese.
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The Battle of Iwo Jima put American forces within striking distance of Japanese home islands.
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The fighting in Europe ended when the Allied forces defeated the Germany army in Germany's capital city of Berlin.
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The United States dropped its first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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The United Staes dropped its second atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
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The fighting in the Pacific ended when the United States defeated the Japanese Empire.
