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Manchuria controlled by Japan
Japan attack Manchuria in order to build a Pacific Empire that will solve the country's economic. -
Italy conquers Ethiopia
Mussolini used his new,
modern military to pursue his own imperialist ambitions while increasing the country's economic. -
Hitler comes to power
Hitler came to power because he promised the people to eliminate the crisis in the country. -
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The Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil war military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. -
Munich conference
An agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland was signed during the Munich Conference. Hitler wanted to unite the German race. -
Hitler taker over Sudetenland
Hitler decide to conquer Sudelenland because he wanted to unite germans. Since this country contain more than 3 million Germans. -
Fall of France
France fell under Hitler's power because of the crisis that it was suffering. France and German signed an armistice plan that allow french people to live in a freeplace while germans live in the other zone. -
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Battle of Britian
The name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940.The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), especially Fighter Command. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan attack Pearl Harbor leading to the death of more than 1 thousand U.S. citizens. -
Hitler begins final solution
Hitler's final solution was based on the elimination of jews. This desicion lead to the Holocaust which cause a lot of deaths. -
Germany invades USSR
The German's plan was to take Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad, and Caucasus. The Germans would then try to cut their supplies by taking the Caucasian oil fields, the granary of Ukraine and other valuable supply routes. -
Atlantic Charter signed
A pivotal policy statement that defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. -
Battle of midway
It represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. It was a war between the United States and Japan that lead to a close war. U.S. was victorious at the end. -
Battle of midway
The Battle of Midway effectively destroyed Japan’s naval strength when the Americans destroyed four of its aircraft carriers. Japan’s navy never recovered from its mauling at Midway and it was on the defensive after this battle. -
D-day invasion
Eisenhower leads Allied invasion of Normandy.This battle was the single most important battle on the Western front because a defeat would have been tragic for Allied morale. -
Yalta conference
The Yaltan conference was a meeting between Franklin Roosevelt (United States), Winston Churchill (Great Britain), and Joseph Stalin (USSR) agreed to meet to discuss war strategy and issues that would affect the postwar world. -
End of Yalta conference
There was an agreement that the priority would be the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. After the war Germany would be split into four occupied zones with a quadripartite occupation of Berlin, prior to unification of Germany.
This meeting's purpose was to analyze the ways that the war should end. Its major points was Germany and the Pacific War. -
VE day
V-E (Victory in Europe) Day, the end of the conflict with Hitler’s Germany. -
Potsdam conference
The last of the World War II heads of state conferences, President Truman, Soviet Premier Stalin and British Prime Ministers Churchill and Atlee discussed post-war arrangements in Europe. -
Potsdam conference
This "Potsdam Declaration" described Japan's present perilous condition, gave the terms for her surrender and stated the Allies' intentions concerning her postwar status.It ended with an ultimatum: Japan must immediately agree to unconditionally surrender, or face "prompt and utter destruction". -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.. Japan's Emperor Hirohito announced his country's unconditional surrender in World War II. -
Vj day
V-J (Victory in Japan) Day, the end of the Pacific conflict with Japan.
