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Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. After the war, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo
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called Operation Hummingbird, was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany
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also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and those of the Ethiopian Empire
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refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany
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November Pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany
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the policy of making concessions to the dictatorial powers in order to avoid conflict, governed Anglo-French foreign policy during the 1930s.
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is a treaty between two or more states/countries that includes a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other.
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marked the beginning of World War II
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the French government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the Nazis launched their invasion of Western Europe.
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a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe
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the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps
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it was a surprise preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu
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was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
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was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia
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which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II
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the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying
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marking the Allied victory in Europe
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detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II
