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Japan launched an attack on Manchuria. Within a few days Japanese armed forces had occupied several strategic points in South Manchuria.
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Mussolini's Italy invaded the EAst aFrican nation of Ethiopia. In the past, Italy established a colony in Ethiopia that had ended in a crushing military defeat at the hands of the Ethiopians. So, when Mussolini came to power with grand plans to rebuild an Italian empire, he invaded Ethiopia. The Ethipians were unable to resist the more powerful Italian forces, and Italy soon conquered the country.
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The war was fought between the Republicans, who were loyal to the democratically elected Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco.
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A military conflict fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1941. China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States.
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany.
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Hitler sent his troops into Czechoslovakia, and captured the land without a fight.
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The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945.
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Invasion was a brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom. The conflict was a result of Benito Mussolini. Albania was rapidly overrun, its ruler, King Zog I, forced into exile, and the country made part of the Italian Empire as a separate kingdom in personal union with the Italian crown.
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Not too long after the Nazi-Soviet agreement, Hilter attacks Poland. This attack was a blitzkreig, a tactic Germany used to defeat Poland in one month.
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On 17 September, sixteen days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union did so from the east. The invasion ended on 6 October 1939.
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The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1939–1940. It began with Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939 and ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9.
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The Soviet Union forces Romania to cede the eastern province of Bessarabia and the northern half of Bukovina to the Soviet Ukraine.
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The Japanese developed a suprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The base was home to the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet.. Japan used aircrafts to complete this task and destroyed as many American ships and planes as possible.
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Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict.
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The Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II.Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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The day of the Normandy landings, which initiated the Western Allied effort to liberate midland Europe from Nazi occupation during WWII.
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WWII Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hilter's Third Reich. This marked the end of WWII in Europe.
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Japan formally surrendered. There were ceremonies that were on board the battleship USS Missouri, in Tokyo Bay.
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Japan surrenders and ends WWII.
