WWII

By abel5910

  • Japan Invades Manchuria

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    World War II

  • Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.

  • Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation

  • Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.

  • Japan invades China, initiating WWII in Pacific

  • Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement

  • France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.

  • Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe.

  • Honoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.

  • The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east.

  • Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.

  • Slovakia (November 23), Hungary (November 20), and Romania (November 22) join the Axis.

  • Bulgaria joins the Axis.

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.

  • The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II. Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), and British Singapore. By April 1942, the Philippines, Indochina, and Singapore are under Japanese occupat

  • Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.

  • British and U.S. troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans.

  • The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in an attempt to re-conquer Belgium and split the Allied forces along the German border. By January 1, 1945, the Germans are in retreat.

  • Hitler commits suicide.

  • The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

  • The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

  • Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.