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A war between China and Japan primarily over influence in Korea. Japan won.
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Italy conquered Libya
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A revolt against the ruling Manchu dynasty. Within 4 months the Manchu had fallen from power and a Chinese republic was established.
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Treaty signed by Japanese leaders who agreed with other major powers to respect the sovereignty and territory of China.
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The first provisional president of the Republic of China
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A civil war between Chiang Kai-shek's conservative party and Mao Zedong's Communist party. Mao Zedong won and gained control of mainland China, establishes the People's Republic of China. Chiang Kai‐shek retreats to the island of Taiwan.
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Japanese program for territory expansion. Chinese protested Japanese action to the LoN. The LoN eventually demanded the Japan return the area to China. Japan refused and left the LoN.
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Germany announced its withdrawal from both the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations.
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The Conference was about the conduct of armed conflict and to consider the reduction in armaments.
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Large, well equipped Italian Army invades Ethiopia, a independent African nation, and won. Used a combination of air power, tanks and poison gas.
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Hitler orders German troops to march into the Rhineland, which breaks the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact. France acts angry but does nothing.
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A revolt against the Spanish republican government led by General Francisco Franco. Hitler and Mussolini supports Franco by providing him with planes, tanks and troops. The Soviet Union offers things to the Loyalist (supporters of the Spanish government). France and Britain were neutral. Franco wins and becomes a dictator. Was the "dress rehearsal" of WWII
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Coalition formed between Italy and Germany.
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Signed first between Germany and Japan (and then between Italy, Germany, and Japan in 06.11.1937). Was on the surface a agreement against communism but it was more specifically aimed at the Soviet Union.
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Start of Japanese full scale invasion of China. After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Russian troops invaded from the north and suppressed Japanese forces in Manchuria. Japanese forces in China were ordered to surrender to the Nationalist Party of China.
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Union of Austria with Germany. Annexation of Austria by Adolf Hitler.
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Gave the Sudetenland to Hitler. There was no Czechoslovakian representative at the conference. Chamberlain thought he established "peace for our time"
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Chamberlain stood in the House of Commons and spoke in defense of the appeasement policy.
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German troops march into Prague and brought most of the country under Nazi rule. Poland and Hungary occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia.
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Italy wins
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Hitler addresses the Reichstag to renounce the German-Polish Nonaggression Pact.
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A military alliance between Italy and Germany.
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Between the Soviet Union and Germany. Agreed to not fight for 10 years
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Germany had a force of about 1.7 million man. France and Britain declare war on Germany. Defeated Poland in less than 4 weeks.
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War between Finland and the Soviet Union. Started because Finland refused to allow the Soviet Union to establish military bases within Finland. The Soviet Union won after 4 months.
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Was easily conquered by Germany. Was called 'Operation Weserübung'
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Under the code name 'Operation Weserübung'. Denmark surrendered on day 1 because of Quisling. The country was a useful base of operations for the fight against Norway.
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Germany invaded Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France. Germany won in 6 weeks.
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Codenamed Operation Dynamo. Evacuation of 350,000 allied soldiers rescued by more than 800 ships.
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Divided France into two zones: one under German military occupation and the other was to be left to the French (Vichy France)
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Estimated 1,400 German planes were shot down by 800 British planes.
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Was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom pre-WWII.
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Allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."
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Between Japan and Russia.
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Codenamed Operation Barbarossa. For lebensraum and natural resources. Nazi forces advanced rapidly. Russia carried out the scorched-earth policy.
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Document setting forth “common principles” on which both countries based their hopes doe a better world future.
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Russian army had 4-5 million casualties. Temperature fell to -40°C which was hard for the German because machinery would not function and soldiers did not have winter clothing.
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Japanese planes surprise attack on Pearl Harbor crippled the US Pacific Fleet
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The US declare war on Japan. Three days later Germany and Italy declare war on the US
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Meeting between Hitler and his top advisers to discuss a way to annihilate the Jewish community as quickly and cheaply as possible.
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The US surrenders all US troops in the Philippines to the Japanese.
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Allies want nothing less than “unconditional surrender” by the Axis
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The Axis troops are outnumbered and have surrendered.
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Italy surrenders unconditional.
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A strategy meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill. After the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.
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The Allied successfully invaded German-occupied France. Also called the Battle of Normandy.
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Representatives of China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom formulated proposals for a world organization that became the basis for the United Nations
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Brilliant German commander known as the “Desert Fox.” Was sent to help Mussolini in North Africa.
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Was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. Wasted Germany's strength and quickened the end of the war in Europe.
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A meeting of the allies: Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe
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The 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death.
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Became president after Roosevelt's death.
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Also known as the Fall of Berlin.
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America captured Iwo Jima after 5 weeks of intense fighting.
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The Conference agreed upon the Charter of the United Nations and the Statute of the new International Court of Justice.
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Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin.
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Germany surrendered unconditionally.
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"Victory in Europe"
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American forces captured Okinawa.
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President Truman orders the atomic bomb to be dropped in Hiroshima. Killed about 80,000 people and injured around 35,000. Another 60,000 people die in the next few months.
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The Soviet Union declare war on Japan. The Soviet Union wants to gain some territory in the peace negotiations.
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Since Japan refuses to surrender the US drop another atomic bomb.
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Japanese surrender under the condition that the emperor be allowed to keep his throne.
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Hostilities end as the Japanese and allies sign the surrender documents aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay
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Was designed to maintain international peace and security.
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Was general of the Imperial Japanese Army and a convicted war criminal. Served as prime minister of Japan during WWII
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Was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War and part of the House of Commons.
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A French army officer who led Free France against Nazi Germany.
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Was the leader of the Republic of China.
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Led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. Ruled over Spain as a dictator.
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Was the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.