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Chamberlain wanted to appease Hitler by giving him land to stop his conquest on Europe.
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Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
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Night of the Long Knives was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany
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was a colonial war fought from 3 October 1935 until 5 May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and those of the Ethiopian Empire.
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Anschluss refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany
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Kristallnacht was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938
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Non-Aggression Pact was a pact between Germany and Soviet Union to be non aggressive towards each other and. They never intend to keep this pact just looked to buy time.
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The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union. The Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September.
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French government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the Nazis launched their invasion of Western Europe.
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Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces.
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Final Solution was an event that would later be called Holocaust the genocide of Jews during World War II
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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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was an epic clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
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The Battle of Normandy
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was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
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Soldiers of the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front opened the gates of Auschwitz Concentration Camp on January 27, 1945. The prisoners greeted them as authentic liberators.
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Victory in Europe Day is a day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement.
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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.
