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The Kwantung army (Japan) invades Manchuria.
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Italy wanted to invade Ethiopia and move in on the capital
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1935- Hitler announces plans to re-militarize
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Germany invades Poland marking the beginning of WW2.
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Britain and France declare War on Germany.
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Smuts declared South Africa, Germany and the Axis at War
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Hitler breaks the Non-Aggression pact with the Soviet Union.
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The Soviet Union counter offences drives Germans from Moscow in a retreat.
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Day after pearl harbor, the U.S. declares war on the empire of Japan because of the damage the Japanese planes caused from Pearl Harbor.
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British bomb Köln (Cologne), for first time brings the war home to Germany. Urban Germany is reduced to rubble over the next three years by Anglo- American bombs.
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Battle of Stalingrad, significant battle between Nazi and Germany (it’s allies fought the soviet union)
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June 6th, 1944- D-Day, US and allied troops invaded Normandy, France.
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The day after D-Day Germany surrenders.
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Victory in Europe Day (AKA VE-day). The Nazis surrender to Russia (Western Allies).
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U.S drops two atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan
