WWII timeline

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    Invasion of Manchuria

    The Empire of Japan's Kwantung Army invaded Manchuria on 18 September 1931, immediately following the Mukden Incident. At the war's end in February 1932
  • Munich Agreement

    Settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia.
  • Invasion of Poland

    Invasion of Poland

    In the Invasion of Poland the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland
  • Fall of Paris

    The sixty remaining French divisions and the two British divisions in France.
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    Battle of Britain

    The British officially recognise the battle's duration, it overlaps the period of large-scale night attacks known
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    Start of Operation Barbarossa

    Hitler launched Operation 'Barbarossa', the invasion of the Soviet Union.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor happened in Hawaii
  • Midway

    Midway

    The Battle of Midway was an epic WWII clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy. It played after 6 months of the attack
  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad

    Stalingrad was one of the deadliest battles.
  • Invasion of Italy

    The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy
  • D-Day

    The World War II D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.
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    liberation of paris

    It was a military battle that took place during World War II.
  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima

    The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945.
  • Okinawa

    Okinawa

    More than 60,000 soldiers and US Marines of the US Tenth Army stormed ashore at Okinawa, in the final island battle.
  • V-E day

    V-E day

    On V-E Day, Germany unconditionally surrendered its military forces to the Allies.
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    Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, during World War II, American bombing raids on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima
  • VJ - Day

    VJ - Day

    VJ - Day marked the end of WWII
  • Nuremberg trials

    The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany, for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries.