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World war II started
Japan invades Manchuria -
Hindenburg is elected President in Germany
November 8: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) is elected president of the United States. -
20th Amendment to the Constitution. Establishes the line of presidential succession in which the Vice-President becomes president if the President can no longer perform the duties of office.
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Russia: Boris Shaposhnikov was awarded his first Order of the Red Star
The Order of the Red Star was awarded to soldiers of the Soviet Army, Navy, border and internal security forces, employees of the State Security Committee of the USSR, as well as NCOs and officers of the bodies of internal affairs; to units, warships, associations, enterprises, institutions and organizations; as well as to military personnel of foreign countries,for example:
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The Italian Invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1935-36
Subsequent to the first Italo-Ethiopian war, Italy sponsored Ethiopia’s application to the LNO, as well as signing a treaty of friendship with Ethiopia in 1929.Ethiopia during the Italian Invasion was under the rule of Emperor Haile Selassie , where as Italy was under the rule of Mussolini. It was sparked by a small border conflict 80 miles within the Italian Somaliland-Ethiopian border at an Italian outpost of Welwel in the Ogaden desert.Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935. -
Start the invades to Italy
Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia. -
Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact
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Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss
On this day, Adolf Hitler announces an “Anschluss” (union) between Germany and Austria, in fact annexing the smaller nation into a greater Germany.Union with Germany had been a dream of Austrian Social Democrats since 1919. The rise of Adolf Hitler and his authoritarian rule made such a proposition less attractive, though, which was an ironic twist, since a union between the two nations was also a dream of Hitler’s, a native Austrian. Despite Hitler did not have the full approvall. -
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich
Agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland -
Under German pressure, the Slovaks declare their independence and form a Slovak Republic
The Germans occupy the rump Czech lands in violation of the Munich agreement, forming a Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. -
Fascist Italy started invades and annexes Albania.
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Fascist Italy ends invades and annexes Albania.
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The Soviet Union invades Finland, initiating the so-called Winter War.
The Finns sue for an armistice and have to cede the northern shores of Lake Lagoda and the small Finnish coastline on the Arctic Sea to the Soviet Union. -
Second Vienna Award: Germany and Italy arbitrate a decision on the division of the disputed province of Transylvania between Romania and Hungary.
The loss of northern Transylvania forces Romanian King Carol to abdicate in favor of his son, Michael, and brings to power a dictatorship under General Ion Antonescu. -
A Soviet counteroffensive drives the Germans from the Moscow suburbs in chaotic retreat.
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Japan invades China, iniciating World War II in the Pacific.
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War,[8] was the theatre of World War II which was fought in the Pacific and East Asia. It was fought over a vast area which included the Pacific Ocean and islands, the South West Pacific, South-East Asia, and in China.Japan invaded Thailand and attacked the British possessions of Malaya,Singapore, and Hong Kong as well as the United States military bases in Hawaii and the Philippines. -
The Badoglio government surrenders unconditionally to the Allies.
The Germans immediately seize control of Rome and northern Italy, establishing a puppet Fascist regime under Mussolini, who is freed from imprisonment by German commandos on September 12. -
The war ends
