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Appeasement was the name given to Britain's policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked
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The Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident
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Was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany
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was a colonial war
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Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.
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Anschluss refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany
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German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland
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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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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
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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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The attack on Pearl Harbor 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, Hawaii
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A decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
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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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In World War II on 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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More than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying
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Marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945
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The United States 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, in effect bringing the war to an end.
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