-
Japan takes Manchuria, a Chinese land, for its resources, which Japan needed badly.
-
From when Japan attacked a Chinese land for its resources to when the Soviet Union defeated Germany at the Battle of Kursk
-
Adolf Hitler takes complete control of Germany with his politcal party, the Nazis.
-
Hitler creates a German air force, the Luftwaffe, and expands military to 550000 men.
-
By order of Mussolini, Italy invades Ethiopia, making its first World War Two offensive.
-
Geramny takes over Austria for the Third Reich, which is what Nazi Germany would be called as an empire.
-
Hitler demands Sudetenland from Britain and France, who give it to him.
-
Germany and the Soviet Union promise not to attack each other.
-
In response to Germany invading Poland, Britain and France declare war on Germany.
-
Within four weeks of invasion, Poland is didvided between Germany and the Soviet Union.
-
Germany invades Belgium and Netherlands to gain ground and later defeats France.
-
The Luftwaffe launch an offensive by bombing London and fighting the British Royal Air Force.
-
Germany invades Greece and Yugoslavia, thus gaining more territory.
-
Germany invades the Soviet Union.
-
Japan makes a surpirse attack on Pearl Harbor, an American naval base.
-
Soviets attack the invading Germans in Kursk, a city in western Russia.