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the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
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a purge that took place in Nazi Germany
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The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and those of the Ethiopian Empire
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refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany
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an international context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material. Chamberlain's policy of appeasement emerged from the failure of the League of Nations and the failure of collective security
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a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany.
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enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
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The invasion of Poland, marked the beginning of World War II.
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the French government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the Nazis launched their invasion of Western Europe.
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a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces
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a surprise preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
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the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia.
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the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps
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Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II
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the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. It is estimated that at minimum 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945; of these, at least 1.1 million were murdered.
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arks the allied victory in Europe
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the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.
