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A peace treaty that brought WWI to an end. -
The peacekeeping role of the League had been discredited, and following Hitler's accession to power, was further damaged by an increasingly aggressive Germany -
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Party. -
Antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany -
There was a border incident between Somaliland. Eventually, Italy invaded Ethiopia. -
Germany formed the Rome-Berlin Axis with Italy's fascist dictator, Mussolini. -
A military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. -
Hitler's eye was caught by Sudetenland. Sudeten Germans began protests and provoked violence from the Czech police. -
German troops marched into Austria to annex the nation. -
Defensive war and Poland campaign, was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II -
In response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain, and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany -
An agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin. It made a defense alliance between these countries. -
Created a defense alliance between the countries -
A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. -
The day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Germany surrenders to the Allies in Reims, France. This ended WW2. -
The day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces ending the war in Europe. -
The US drops a bomb on Hiroshima killing between 129,000 and 226,000 people. -
Three days after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the US dropped one on Nagasaki. -
The day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end -
Japanese Emperor Hirohito surrendered on August 15, but formally did on September 9, 1945.
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