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The Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of WWII.
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Hitler was appointed to be chancellor (legal official) of Germany by Presedent Hindenburg
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The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined.
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A program against Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Germany authorities didn't step in.
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This is when Germany invaded Poland to begin the war
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The evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe
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A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor
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The march went from Mariveles, Bataan, to San Fernando, Pampanga. From San Fernando, survivors were loaded to a box train and they were brought to Camp O'Donnell in Capas, Tarlac. It killed thousands of people.
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The United State's Navy defeated an attack by Imperial Japanease Navy
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This was the invasion of Normandy taking many lives. American and British troops faught to free France. It ended WWII
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The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States, whose forces bore the brunt of the attack. It also severely depleted Germany's war-making resources.
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"Victory in Europe Day" public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of WWII of Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces
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This was a secret mission by the U.S. The two bombings were the first and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in wartime
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"Victory over Japan Day" Japan surrendered. This officially ended WWII.
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Meeting of the heads of Government (US, UK, Soviet Union) for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization
