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Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an Axis
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The Anti-Comintern Pact was an anti-communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan (later to be joined by other, mainly fascist, governments) on November 25, 1936 and was directed against the Third (Communist) International
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on September 29, Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier, and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini met in Munich, where Mussolini introduced a written plan that was accepted by all as the Munich Agreement
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the Sudetenland Medal was a decoration of Nazi Germany awarded in the interwar period.
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nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union that was concluded
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some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory
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in response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany
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German warships enter major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, German forces occupy Copenhagen, among other Danish cities
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After a couple months France surrenders to Germany
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the Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which will last three and a half months, begins
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Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II.
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hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii
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After the bombing , Unites States declares war on Japan