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Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
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When the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
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A purge of Nazi leaders towards their rivals.
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A war that was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and those of the Ethiopian Empire.
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The annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany.
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Neville Chamberlain flies to Heston Aerodrome to a meeting with the peace agreement between Britain and Germany.
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A pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany.
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Non aggression pact. The two countries agreed to take no military action against to take each other for the next ten years.
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Germans invaded Poland causing the beginning of WW2.
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France Surrenders to Nazi Germany. On June 22, 1940, 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.
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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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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 between 1941 and 1945.
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A naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia
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World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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was 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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A day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II ending the war.