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Japan invades Manchuria
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Fascist Italy conquers Ethiopia for revenge
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Germany and Italy sign treaty of coopoeration
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Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.
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Japan invades China after signing treaty with Nazi Germany
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic give land including the key military defense positions, to Nazi Germany.
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement
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Great Britain and France declare war on Germany for attacking Poland
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The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.
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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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Italy enters the war
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This was the day where Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor.They sunk or destroyed nineteen ships, and 2,300 were killed. This sparked the U.S. involvement in World War II.
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This completely changed the war in favor of the Allies. In a succesful victory, Americans destroyed 332 Japanese planes and destroyed all four aircraft carriers. The captain of the Japanese called for a retreat.
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There was a huge Japanese air base on Guadalcanal. The battle for the island was a huge struggle. The battle finally ended within six months, and the Japanese called it "the island of death."
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330 American B-29s rained incendinary bombs on Tokyo
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U.S. troops moved onto the island of Okinawa. They fought a desperate fight, but lost. The Battle of Iwo Jima was one of the deadliest land battles alive. The Japanese lost more than 100,000 troops, and Americans 12,000.
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The first Atomic bomb or A-Bomb was exploded in a desert in New Mexico. The explosion was a success. US threatened Japan with this.
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The Japanese had ignored the warning. The U.S. dropped an A-Bomb on Hiroshima, a city of nearly 350,000 people. Between 80,000 and 90,000 people have died.
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The Japanese had not yet surrendered. A second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki, a city of about 270,000. More than 70,000 were immediately killed, but then radiation from the bomb had killed many more.
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The Japanese had finally surrendered.The ceremony took place on U.S. battle ship Missouri located in the Toky o Bay. Now, Japan was down, and the war has ended.
