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The first test of the League of Nations which it failec miserably. Japan infringed on many treaties and the League of Nations didn't intervene.
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Fascist Italy decided to conquer one of the two remaining countries left of Africa.
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Japan invaded China in violation of the League of Nations.
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Germany essentially annexes Austria into a greater Germany subverting the League of Nations.
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The "night of broken glass" was a series of coordinated attacks against Jews in Germany.
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Germany invades the rest of Czechoslovakia after annexing the Sudetenland.
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Non agression pact between Germany and Russia. Germany did this to avoid a 2-Front war and Russia did this to give themselves time to industrialize.
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Germany (under no threat of Soviet oppositon) invades Poland to seize as much land as it can.
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Following the German Blitzkrieg of Poland France and Britain promptly declared war on Germany.
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Germany's sucsessful invasion of France. Once Germany captured Paris things looked bleak for Europe.
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Germany bombarded the British home island.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan signed a military agreement in which they all three defend each other.
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Germany violated the non agression pact with Russia and invaded them after they had taken France.
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December 7th Pearl Harbor is bombed by Japan marking the U.S. entrance to WWII.
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The U.S. Declared war on Japan shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Immediatley after the U.S. Declared war on Japan, Japan declared war on Britain and the U.S.
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Most decisive naval battle in the pacific campaign. U.S. had broken the Japanese radio code and were able to anticipate the impending Japanese strike. The U.S. crushed the Japanese attack and this marked the first time Japan had lost a naval battle in a century.
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Allied invasion of German occupied France. June 6th marks the day the allied forces took the beach marking the beginning of the recapture of France.
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Battle of Iwo Jima was the bloodiest battle of the pacific theater. Ended as a U.S. victory but the land was of limited strategic value.
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Victory in Europe day. Several days after Adolf Hitler commited suicide the Nazis surrendered their armed forces.
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The nuclear bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima August 6th. After three days without a Japanese surrender the U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki.
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Japan surrenders to the U.S. after the second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
