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The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 18 September 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
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Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a colonial war between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and those of the Ethiopian Empire.
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The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, held in Berlin, Nazi Germany
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Anschluss refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.
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Hitler said that he would not invade Czechoslovakia if he were given control of the Sudetenland.
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The Invasion of Poland,was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union,.that was the start of WWII
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The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by the German Air Force.
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On this day in 1940, the Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin.
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the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II
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Roosevelt insisted that people in all nations of the world shared Americans' entitlement to four freedoms:
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Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, during World War II
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The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued during WWII which defined the Allied goals for the postwar world. The leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States drafted the work and all the Allies of World War II later confirmed it. The Charter stated the ideal goals of the war.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor,
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II.
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was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill, after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran. It was held in the Soviet Union's embassy in Tehran, Iran. It was the first of the World War II conferences of ¨ The Big Three¨
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The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France.
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The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II
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was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japanese Army during World War II.
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The Battle of Okinawa, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States against the Japanese Army
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Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, bringing an end to the European conflict in World War II.
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US drops bomb on Hiroshima was a retaliation attack from the Japanese bombing pearl harbor
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During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed in September, bringing the hostilities of World War II to an end.
