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Their common interest in destabilizing the European order, announced a Rome-Berlin Axis one week after signing a treaty of friendship.
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan signed the so-called Anti-Comintern Pact directed at the Soviet Union.
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement and forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland.
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France and Britain, the Czechoslovakians are powerless against Adolf Hitler's army.
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The German authorities closed Jewish schools, confiscated Jewish-owned property, and conscripted Jewish men into forced labor and dissolved prewar Jewish organizations.
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The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack.
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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.
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The demarcation line for the partition of German- and Soviet-occupied Poland was along the Bug River.
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The rest were German and eastern European refugees. Most Jews lived in the country's capital and largest city, Copenhagen.
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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
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Italy enters the war and invades sother france.
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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.
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The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes.
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As America’s Pacific fleet lay in ruins at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt requests, and receives, a declaration of war against Japan.
