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WWII

By dainellyscalo

  • Japan shocked

    Japan shocked by signing of Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

  • Britain and France declare war in Germany

    The British and French had given Poland guarantees of military support in the event an attack by Germany

  • Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the U.S

  • Japanese conquer

    Japanese conquer Thailand, Philippines, Malaya

  • Allies and Germany battle for control over North Africa

    After a rapid advance across North Africa toward British-held Egypt, a German offensive was halted. Mid-October, a british counteroffensive began to push Germans back. In November, “Operation Torch”, and Allied amphibious invasion, landed on the coasts of Morocco. May 1943, all North Africa was in Allied control

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

    troops leave landing craft and wade ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day

  • United States drops atomic bombs on Japan

    U.S atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Leave 70,000 dead immediately, at the end of 1945, 30,000 had died.

  • Japan surrender

    The combination of the threat of further U.S, attacks with atomic weapons, together wit the Soviet Union’s declaration of war against Japan caused the Japanese to surrender