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Benito Mussolini coin
Speaking to a crowd in Milan , Benito Mussolini coins name ''Axis'' for italy and it allies when he states that the '' line between rome and berlin is not a partititon but rather an axis around which all European states .. can also collaborate '' -
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Anti Comintern Pact
An agreement councluded first between Germany and Japan and then between Italy , Germany and Japan ostensibly directed against the Communist International but , by implication specifically against the Soviet Union . -
Munich Agreement
Was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoclovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers . -
Sudetenland Metal
Conmemorative medal awarded to soldiers of the Third Reich who participated in the annexation of the Sudetenland in Czecholovakia by Germany .It was designed by Richard and features two males figures representing the Sudetenland being freed from its shackles by Nazi Germany . -
The hitler Stalin Pact
Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non agression pact , stunning the world , given their diametrically opposed idelogies . But the dictators were , despite appearances , both playing to their own political needs . -
Germans inavde Poland
Nazi Germany invaded Poland , the act that started World War II , the day before , Nazi operatives had posed as Polish military officers to stage an attack on the radio station in the Silesian City . -
Britian and France declare war on Germany
In response to Hilter 's invasion of Poland , Britian and France , both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany . And the British Prime Minister , Neville announced run away with the idea that Hilter was the only reason the war happen. -
Soviet Union invades Poland
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov declares that the Polish government has ceased to exist , as the U.S.S.R. exercises the ''fine print '' of the Hitler Stalin Non agression pact , the invasion and occupation of eastern Poland . -
Germany invades Norway and Demark
German warships enter major Norwegian ports , from Narvik to Oslo , deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway . At the same time , German forces occupy Copenhagen , among other Danish cities . -
Hilter gains victory over France
Germany and France signed an armistice in the forest of Compiene . The treaty provided that hostlities between the two nations would end six hours after the signing of an armistice treaty between France and Italy . -
The battle of Britian begins
The germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britian , as the Battle of Britian , which will last three and a half months , begins . -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hilter launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union , three great army groups with over three million German soldiers , 150 divisions , and three thousands tasks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory . -
Pearl Harbor bombed
Hawaii time , a japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wing appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu . And 360 japenese followed naval base at Pearl Harbor in a ferocious assult -
United States declare war on Japan
As America's Pacific fleet lay in ruins at Pearl Harbor , President Franklin Roosevelt requests and receives a decleration of war against Japan .