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Period: to
World War ll
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Japan
Japan invades Manchuria. -
Hitler
Hitler becomes German Chancellor and withdraws Germany from the league of Nations. -
Conscription
Germany annouces rearmament and conscriptions.
Italy invades Abyssinia ( Ethiopia ) -
Rhineland
-German troops re-enter the Rhineland.
-Italy and Germany support Franco in the Spanish civil war.
-Germany and Japan become Allies. -
China
Japan invades China. -
Troops
-German troops occupy Austria.
-Czechoslovakia is the weakened as the Sudentenland is ceded to Germany at the Munich Conference. -
March-April
Germany occupies Czechsolvakia. Italy invades Albania. -
August
Nazi-soviet Non-aggression Pact is signed. -
September
Germany invades Poland. Britain and France decalre war on Germany on 3rd September. -
April-June
Germany overruns Denmark, Norway, Belgium the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France. Italy enters the war. -
August
The battle of Britain prevents a German invasion of Britain. -
December
British and Australian forces defeat Italians in North Africa. -
April-May
Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece. -
June
Germany invades the USSR. -
Pearl harbour
Japan attacks Pearl harbor and British Malaya. -
Pacific
-Japenese advance in South-East Asia and the pacific.
-Mass gassings begin in Auschwitz.
-Germans defeated at El Alamein. -
Russians
Russian defeat Germans at Stalingrad. -
D-Day
-Japenese are forced back in the Pacific.
-After the D-day landings, the Western allies advance towards Germany while Soviet forces advance on the Eastern front. -
May
Germany surrenders. -
September
Japan surrenders following dropping of atomic bomb.
