WWII

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  • Japan invades China

  • Italy joins Germany and Japan in the Anti-Comintern Pact.

  • Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss.

  • Japan shocked by signing of Nazi- soviet nonaggression pact

    Japan shocked by signing of Nazi- soviet nonaggression pact

    Japan which joined Germany in the anti-Comintern pact of 1936, which was directed against the Soviet Union

  • Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania.

  • Germans invasion of Poland

    Germans invasion of Poland

    After the Germans conquered Poland, they began a systematic destruction of Polish intellectuals and the ruling classes, and by end of WWII had killed a total of three million Poles.

  • Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21

  • The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.

  • The Italians invade British-controlled Egypt from Italian-controlled Libya.

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

    Germany invades the Soviet Union

    For “Operation,” their camping against the Soviet Union, the Germans assembled the largest invasion force in history, totaling almost 150 divisions, 3000 tanks, 7000 artilerry pieces.

  • Bulgaria joins the Axis.

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.

  • The US Navy halts the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway.

  • Allies under U.S. Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower launch D-Day invasion

    Allies under U.S. Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower launch D-Day invasion

    Participants in “Operations Overlord,” the Allied invasion of northern France, U.S. troops leave landing craft and wade ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day.
  • Germany surrenders

    Germany surrenders

    Austrian SS chief Ernst Kaitenbrunner aversaw the Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe.