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Japans Kwantung Army invaded Manchuria. -
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, which meant Czechoslovakia had to surrender its border regions and defenses to Nazi Germany. -
Nazi Germany, The Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union. -
The Germans took over the City of Paris.
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The Royal Air Force and Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom from the Germans.
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Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany. -
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii. -
Midway was a naval battle in the pacific that took place 6 months after Pearl Harbor -
The German Nazis were fighting the Soviet Union on the eastern front. Germany won.
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The allies invaded Italy which was a follow up of the invasion of Sicily. -
The allies stormed the Beaches of Normandy. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
Germany surrendered under the French Capital. -
The US Marine and Navy captured the island of Iwo Jima from the imperial Japanese.
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The US Army and US Marines fought the Imperial Japanese on the Island of Okinawa.
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Germany surrendered its military forces to the Allies. -
The US dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. -
Japan surrendered to the US on this day and WWII ended on this day. -
The allies held trials against the Nazis that were involved in war crimes.