WWII

By erawdon17

  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia

  • Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation

  • Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pack directed again the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement

  • Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific

  • Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss

  • Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich Agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland

  • Under German pressure, the Slovaks declare their independence and form a Slovak Republic. The Germans occupy the rump Czech lands in violation of the Munich agreement, forming a Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

  • France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish State

  • Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania

  • Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement and a secret codicil dividiing eastern Europe into spheres of influence

  • Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe

  • Honoring their guarantee of Poland's borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • The Soviet Union invades Poland from the east

  • Warsaw surrenders on September 27. The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them

  • The Soviet Union invades Finland.

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9.

  • Germany attacks Western Europe

  • 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 Soviet Union occupies the Baltic States on June 14-18 engineering Communist coup d'etats in each of them on July 14-15

  • The Soviet Union forces Romania to cede the eastern province of Bessarabia and the northern half of Bukovina to the Soviet Ukraine

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

  • Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact

  • Italy invades Greece from Albania on October 28

  • Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania join the Axis

  • The Germans send the Africa Korps to North Africa to reinforce the faltering Italians

  • Bulgaria joins the Axis.

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

  • Soviet troops liberate Kiev