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Italian Invasion of Ethiopia
The initial attacks by the Italians began in 1932, though it had obviously been planned for some time. They gradually seized territory along the border which belonged to the Ethiopians. The British were present as observers , but didnt intervere,because they didnt want to provoke war with Italy. All the Europeans assumed Ethiopia would fold and make concessions, rather than fight a war they couldn't win against the Italians. They were wrong.The Ethiopians fought for their land. -
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Spanish Civil War
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Rape of Nanjing in China
Japanese invaders used several dozens of trucks,
drove more than one thousand elderly, women and children to the sandbank,
and buried them alive in a huge pit dug beforehand.
All the victims' hands were tied behind their backs, they could only cry and curse, they had no way to resist. -
German Annexation of the Sudetenland
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German Invasion of Poland
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France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
Great Britain & France declared war on Germany, September 3, 1939, because Germany invaded Poland September 1. Great Britain & France had a treaty with Poland that stated if a nation invaded any of the three treaty nations, it was the same as invading all three nations. So when Germany invaded Poland, it was as if Germany had invaded Great Britain & France also. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a naval base in the US state of Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, which was a surprise. The attack led to America's fighting in War World 2. 3581 Americans were killed or wounded, 347 warplanes were destroyed and six out of the fleet of eight battleships in the harbour were sunk. -
El-Alamein
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Guadalcanal
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Stalingrad
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D-Day
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Phillipines (Battle of Manila)
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Yalta Conference
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The end of the war in Europe
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Dropping of Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
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Dropping of Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
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The end of the war in Asia
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Nuremberg Trials
