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Invasion of Manchuria
Japan invaded Manchuria because it was becoming increasingly crowded due to its limited size as a nation and its rapidly increasing population. When Manchuria was attacked the League did nothing about it, by the end of 1931, the civilian government had clearly lost control of the army and Japan had occupied the whole of province. -
Rape of Nanking
In the course of the Sino-Japanese War, the capital of China, Nanking, fall into Japanese forces. Japanese General Matsui Iwane ordered that the city be destroyed and Japanese troops launched a battle of obscenities against civilians. This event came to be known as the "Rape of Nanking", the Japanese butchered an estimated 150,000 male "war prisoners" and massacred 50,000 more. At least 20,000 women and girls of all ages were raped, many of whom were mutilated or killed in the process.
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Anschluss
In 1938, Hitler was strong enough to plan a union with Austria, in a great scheme to unite all German-speaking people in one country, going against the Treaty of Versailles. Later, Hitler threatened the Austrian leader to invade, while France and Britain both refused to help. Before long the people would find themselves living a Nazi regime of terror. -
Munich Pact
The prime ministers of both Britain and France Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler. The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. In 1939, early september, the Germans army division invaded Poland despite being the threat given. Two days later chamberlain was called for a British declaration of war against Germany, and War World II began. -
Kristallnacht
This was also known as the Night of the Broken Glass. It was when Nazis in Germany torched many establishments that were in any way related to Jews including their homes. 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. After Kristallnacht, the conditions in which Jews were treated only got worse. -
Non-Aggression Pact
The Non-Aggression Pact included Germany and Russia coming to an agreement where both countries will take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. The pact was used as a way to be on peaceful terms with Germany while Hitler used it to get Poland without restriction It also contained a secret agreement where the Soviets and the Germans agreed how they would later divide Eastern Europe. But soon the Pact will be violated in 1941 when the Nazi force invaded the Soviet Union -
Invasion of Poland
To Hitler, the invasion of Poland would bring more "living space' for the German people, whom he thought was racially superior. Invading Poland with 1.5 million German troops along its border, while simultaneously bombing Polish airfields and attacking Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. -
Evacuation of Dunkirk
As the German army advanced through northern France, cutting through British troops, forcing an evacuation of soldiers across the North Sea from the town of Dunkirk to England. But they were soon to be circled by Germans on all sides, by June 4, when the Germans closed in and the operation was coming to an end, more than 338,000 soldiers were saved. -
Tripartite
On this day, the Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. This Pact was meant for mutual assistance should any of these three nations suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war. -
Lend lease Act
The Lend-lease Act was passed in March 1941, providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II, allowing the transfer of supplies without compensation to other countries, permitting the U.S. to support its war interests without being overextended in battle. The Lend-lease brought the U.S. one step closer to the entry into the war. -
Operation of Barbarossa
On the Operation of Barbarossa, Hitler 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 thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory, the invasion covered a distance of over 2,000 miles. But Barbarossa had failed, and Nazi Germany confronted a two front war it could not win. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was an unexpected attack on the U.S. by the Japanese, with hundreds of Japanese fighter planes destroying or damaging nearly 20 American naval vessels and over 300 airplanes. The Japanese and the U.S. were already facing the conclusion of coming to a war and the day after President D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan -
Battle of Midway
This event was six months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, it was one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II between the United States and Japan. Thanks in part of major advances in code breaking, American intelligence solved Japanese fleet codes, enabling the U.S. to understand the exact Japanese plans. Letting the U.S. place available U.S. carries in position to surprise the Japanese on Midway Island itself. -
D-Day Invasion
156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces landed on 5 beaches along the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history. Prior to D-Day, Allies tricked the Germans about the intended invasion target. By the following spring, the Allies had defeated the Germans and the Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of the war in Europe. -
Liberation of Paris
Paris was free from German control. Members of the resistance continued to free French civilians prisoners in Paris. The Germans were still counterattacking, killing small groups of the resistance fighters as they encounter them in the city. On Aug 24 , another French armored division entered Paris from the south but still Germans continued to fire often catching civilians in the crossfire. Once the city was free from German rule, French collaborators were often killed upon capture. -
Battle of the Bulge
This event was the last major German offensive fight on the Western Front during World War II. It was places through forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France and Luxembourg, in the end of World War II. -
Hitler's suicide
Hitler commits suicide with his wife, Eva Braun, two days after getting married. Both took cyanide capsules but Hitler shot himself for safe measure, in a bunker. Even then Hitler was micromanaging what was left of German defences for the last great siege of the war. They were then cremated by the bunker's survivors but were not officially declared dead until 1956 by a German court.
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Germany Surrenders
In 1945, Germany unconditionally surrenders to Reim, in northeast France. At first limiting the terms but in the end gave up in order to avoid the option of being in the forces of Soviet hands. -
HIroshima/Nagasaki
In early August, during World War II, America dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the city of HIroshima in Japan, the explosion killed 90% of the city's population immediately and more would soon die of radiation exposure. Three days after the first bomb deployed a second A-bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, killing almost 40,000 people and many more, days and years later.