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Hitler and the Nazis eliminated democratic freedoms and took control of all aspects of public life in Germany.
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Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931. By 1937 Japan controlled large sections of China, and war crimes against the Chinese became commonplace. -
On the morning of 12 March 1938, the 8th Army of the German Wehrmacht crossed the border into Austria. -
German troops invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, triggering World War II. -
After a fierce debate in Congress, in November of 1939, a final Neutrality Act passed. This Act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of “cash-and-carry.” -
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict that lasted between the Allied and the Axis Powers.
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German forces began Fall Rot ("Case Red") on 5 June 1940. -
From 24 August onwards, the battle was a fight between Kesselring's Luftflotte 2 and Park's 11 Group. -
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
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On Friday, August 1 1941, The US announces a ban on oil exports to “aggressor countries,” including Japan. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base. -
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war. -
The Battle of Midway was a key battle to secure dominance in the Pacific in World War II. Learn more about the strategies employed during this battle. -
The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II. -
France celebrates VE Day on 8 May, being a national and public holiday. -
The operation, given the codename OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France. -
The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still being felt today. -
The Yalta Conference took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea from February 4–11, 1945, during World War Two. -
On the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague.