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Japan's invasion of China was due essentially to Japan's desire to be an imperial power. There was both an economic and a militaristic element to this desire.
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“Union”, political union of Austria with Germany, achieved through annexation by Adolf Hitler in 1938. Mooted in 1919 by Austria, Anschluss with Germany remained a hope (chiefly with Austrian Social Democrats) during 1919–33
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On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. ... After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border.
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After a fierce debate in Congress, in November of 1939, a final Neutrality Act passed
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The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. On 3 September 1939 France had declared war on Germany,
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The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom
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apanese Oil Embargo (1940-1941) Embargo that prohibited export of fuel and other war materials to Japan
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States
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The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after japans attack.
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The Battle of Stalingrad 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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Allied forces invaded northern France. Allies used beach landings and Normandy.
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the day (May 8) marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945.
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Bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the United States. The U.S wanted Japan to surrender in the war so they dropped another bomb on them to get them to surrender.
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invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague.
