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WWII
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Germany and Italy
Their common interest in destabilizing the European order, announced a Rome-Berlin Axis one week after signing a treaty of friendship. -
Nazi and Japan signed Anti- Comintern.
Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan signed the so-called Anti-Comintern Pact directed at the Soviet Union. -
Munich agreement
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement and forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland. -
Nazi German march to Sudetenland
France and Britain, the Czechoslovakians are powerless against Adolf Hitler's army. -
German occupation Warsaw's Jews
The German authorities closed Jewish schools, confiscated Jewish-owned property, and conscripted Jewish men into forced labor and dissolved prewar Jewish organizations. -
Germany invaded Poland.
The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. -
Britain and France declaring war on Germany
Poland was defeated by a combination of German and Soviet forces and was partitioned between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. -
Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland
The demarcation line for the partition of German- and Soviet-occupied Poland was along the Bug River. -
German forces invaded Norway and Denmark.
The rest were German and eastern European refugees. Most Jews lived in the country's capital and largest city, Copenhagen. -
France signed an armistice with Germany
France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline. In southern France, a collaborationist regime with its capital in Vichy is established -
Italy against Fance
Italy enters the war and invades sother france. -
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union
The destruction of the Soviet Union by military force, the permanent elimination of the perceived Communist threat to Germany, and the seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for long-term German settlement had been a core policy of the Nazi movement since the 1920s. -
Japan launches a surprise attack
The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. -
United States declares war on Japan
As America’s Pacific fleet lay in ruins at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt requests, and receives, a declaration of war against Japan.
