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Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
Kwantung army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden incident. The Japanese called Manchuria. Their occupation lasted until the end of WWII. -
Hitler is made Chancellor of Germany
Appointment was made in effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party "in check" disastrous result for Germany and the entire European continent. He exploited the death of Hindenburg becoming supreme leader of Germany. -
THe Munich Pact
It was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the counrty's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers for which a new territoria designation "Sudetenland" was coined. -
Kristallnacht
Reffered to as the Night of Broken Glass, was a program against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on the 9th - 10th of November 1938 carried out by the SA -
Invasion of Poland
Known as September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War etc. It was an invasion of Poland by Germany's, the Soviet Union and a small Slovak Contingent that marked the beginning of WWII in Europe. -
Dunkirk
Part of the battle of France on the Western front. It was a defensive and evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe from May 26th - June 4th. -
Bataan Death March
It was the forcible transfer by the imperial Japanese Army of 60-80 thousand Filipino and American prosoners of wasr after the three month battle of Bataabn in the Philippines during WWII. -
Battle of Midway
A naval and air battle fought in WWII in which planes from America aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific ocean after Pearl Harbor. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Was a suprise military strike conducted by the imperial Japanese Navy against in the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec, 7th 1941 which was an entry into WWII. -
D-Day
Code name for the first day of a military attack especially the American and British invasion of German occupied France during WWII on June 6th 1944 -
Battle of the Bulge
Fought over the winter months of 1994-1945, It was the last major Nazi offensive against the Allies in WWII. The battle was a last ditch attempt by Hitler to split the Allies into their last drvie towars Germany and destroy their ability to supply themselves. -
Yalta Conference
An agreeement reached near the end of WWII between FDR of the US and Prime Minister Winston Churchhill of Britain and Premier Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. -
VE Day
Marked the Allied victory in Europr in 1945 -
VJ Day
August 15 in 1945 on which Japanese ceased fighting in WWII or the day when Japan formally surrender, -
Bombing of Hiroshima
Atomic bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, They were conducted by the U.S. during the final stages of WWII in August 1945