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on November 1, the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced. -
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement. -
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany. -
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Adolf Hitler's army marched into the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, continuing Nazi Germany's aggressive World War II offensive. -
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement and a secret codicil dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence. -
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Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe. -
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Honoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. -
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The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east. -
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9. -
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On June 22, France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline. In southern France, a collaborationist regime with its capital in Vichy is established. -
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Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21. -
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Nazi Germany and its Axis partners (except Bulgaria) invade the Soviet Union -
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. -
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The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II. Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina and British Singapore. By April 1942, the Philippines, Indochina, and Singapore are under Japanese occupation.