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Japan signs treaty with China to respect China's borders
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Japan signs Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war
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Great Depression struck and many Japanese blamed the government
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Japanese army seized Manchuria, despite objections from the Japanese parliament
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Japan withdraws from League of Nations
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U.S. begins passing the Neutrality Acts
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Hitler announces Germany will not obey Treaty of Versailles
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Italy attacks Ethiopia
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Germany occupies Rhineland
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Army leaders joined General Francisco Franco in a revolt
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Italy and Germany make an alliance
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Germany made an agreement with Japan
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Japan invades China; full-scale war between Japan and China
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Germany annexes Austria
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Germany takes Sudetenland
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Munich Conference
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Republican resistance collapsed
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Germany invades Czechoslovakia
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Italy invades Albania
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Nazis and Soviets sign Nonaggression Pact
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Stalin and Hitler sign a non-aggression pact
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Hitler's surprise attack against Poland
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France and Great Britain declared war on Germany
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Soviet Union invades eastern Poland,Lithuania,Latvia,Estonia,and Finland
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Stalin forced the Finns to accept his surrender terms
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The calm ended. Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
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Germany invades Netherlands,Belgium,and Luxembourg
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The Germans took Paris
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French leaders surrendered
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Battle of Britain
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Hitler sends Rommel to help Italian troops in Egypt
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Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
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Germany invades Soviet Union
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A German U-boat fired on a U.S. destroyer in the Atlantic
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German forces put Leningrad under seige
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Germans try to take Moscow