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WW I ends
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League of Nations Founded
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Treaty of Versailles 1
The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. -
US Stock Market Crash 2
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
Japan Invades Manchuria 3
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 18 September 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
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German Occupation of The Rhineland
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Rome-Berlin Axis 4
Rome-Berlin Axis, Coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. An agreement formulated by Italy's foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries -
Munich Conference 5
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 -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
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Great Britain and France Declare War 6
The Declaration of war by France and the United Kingdom was given on 3 September 1939, after German forces invaded Poland -
German Invasion of Poland 7
The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign or the 1939 Defensive War, -
Rape of Nanking 8
The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
Winter War 9
The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II -
Fall of France
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Atlantic Charter
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Pearl Harbor Attack 10
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor -
Battle of Stalingrad 11
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 -
Battle of Midway 12
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea -
Invasion of Sicily
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Tehran Conference 13
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran -
Normandy Invasion 14
The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy -
Battle of The Bulge
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Yalta Conference
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Germany Surrenders (WWII)
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Nuclear Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 15
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 to stop japan -
Japanese Surrender 16
The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close
