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Japan invades and occupies Manchuria
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Rome affirmed its 1928 treaty of friendship with Ethiopia.
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the Italians fought against poorly-armed Ethiopian troops in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital
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After Germany invaded Poland, France and Britain declared war on Germany to no avail. Poland fell and WWII began.
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. Both the U.S. and British air forces made many bombing raids on Hamburg, Germany.
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Hermann Göring took over the Palais as the headquarters of the Luftwaffe in France, taking for himself a sumptuous suite of rooms to accommodate his visits to the French capital.
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the troops were desperately needed back on the home shores to help defend against a Nazi invasion. They were rescued from the harbour and beaches near to Dunkirk by a curious assembly of many different types of craft.
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Winston Churchill ordered the implementation of Operation Dynamo, a plan to evacuate of troops and equipment from Dunkirk.
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was Germany's plan to invade the United Kingdom during World War II,
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Nazi Germany's invasion of Russia.It was the largest attack of WWII.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor brought the US in WWII. Before the attack the US had vowed to remain silent.
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code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War I
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On 19 February 1942 mainland Australia came under attack for the first time when Japanese forces mounted two air raids on Darwin
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The Battle of El Alamein was fought in North Africa. The Allied victory lead to the retreat of the Afrika Korps & German surrender
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The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by many historians to have been the turning point in World War Two in Europe.
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Operation Torch was the British-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II.
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it was the last major Nazi offensive against the Allies in WWII
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when Allied forces landed in Normandy, FR. The largest amphibious invasion operation in world history, over 160k troops landed in a single day and 195,700 Allied naval and merchant navy personnel in over 5,000 ships were also involved.
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Thirty thousand British and American airborne troops were flown behind enemy lines and....
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the date when the World War II ended.