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Following its demand for a bigger market and more resources imperial japan occupied Manchuria.
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young communist Marinus van der Lubbe started a fire in Reichstag which gave emregency powers to hitler finsihing his compain of getting all the power to himself. shortly after this event Nazi germany was formed.
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accoding to the treaty of versaile germany was to demilitirize the rhineland, however Hitler didn't care and moved his troops into these land. The western powers did not react following their policy of appeasement.
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Many problems in Spain caused a division in public between rebulicans and nationalists. On July 17, 1936 the war between these groups started. Because republicans beleived in communism and nationalists in nazism and fascism a war quickly turned into world matter with many countries supproting either side.
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In order to increase its power Japanese Empire needed to have China along its lands. However Japan didn't conquer all of china only the eastern part of it.
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Hitler sent his troops to annex Austria using german people that are living in Austria as a justification for the annexation. Austria asked for protection from the western forces but they didn't react following their policy of appeasement.
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Hitler demanded Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia because a lot of german people were living there. To keep peace in Europe western powers decided to make a deal with Hitler. Following their policy of appeasement they gave Sudentenland to Hitler hopping that that will stop his aggresion. Czechoslovakia felt betrayed as it was not even invited to the meating.
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Disobeying the munich agreement hitler completely occupied czechoslovakia breaking all the illusions of western powers about world peace.
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British and France promised to protect Poland in case of war with Hitler.
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the war ended with franco and nationalists winning and gaining full control of spain. This conflict showed the world that fascism is spreading with non stop speed.
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Italy needed land and resources and since Albania had both, ItIaly invaded it.
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Hitler and Mussolini signed a treaty forming a millitary and political alliance between Italy and Germany.
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Two worst enemies USSR and Nazi germany signed a document saying that non of the country will attack each other. They also agreed that they are going to split poland, baltic countries and romania.
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hitler attacked poland because poland wouldn't give danzig to him. This atttack officialy started the Second World War.
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following their promise to poland britain and france proclaimed war on Nzi germany. However they did not support Poland millitary nor did they attack Germany from the west. They just blocked ports trying to weaken Nazi germans.
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Germany needed to invade Norway in order to secure its supply of iron. However in order to do this Germany first need to invade Denmark to get a starting platform.
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In order to secure its iron supply from british, who planned on invading Norway, Germany occupied Norway.
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Germany invaded those two countries so they could later invade france.
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German army encircle main allied forces by going around them in the Ardennes. After their evacuation in battle of dunkirk germany easily conquered the rest of France.
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It was an evacuation of the allied forces at Dunkirk after they have been encircled by the nazi army.
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In order to complete the Operation sealion and invade Britain Germany needed air domination. However they didn't manage to win this domination and thus they never occupied Britain.
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Impirial Japan invaded Indochina in order to get more resources and in order to close the way for Republic of China getting help from ports in indochina.
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A millitary agreement between Japan, Italy and Germany which is the formal beginning of the axis powers.
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Italy was rying to restore boarders of the Roman empire and in order to achive this goal it tried to occupy Greece. Italy attacked Greece through previously invaded Albania however Greek army was able to defend the country against Italy.
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Because American people supported neutrality FDR had to find some other way of providing help to Britain and France.
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Italy, germany, romania, and bulgaria invaded and splited Yugoslavia apart because of the same conflicts in the balkans that started the 1 world war.
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After italy failed to invade Greece on her own Hitler took this into his hands and occupied Greece.
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Operation Barbarossa was a german offense operation that tried to invade USSR. Even though at the begging the operation had success it was later completely destroyed.
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it was a declartion afterr a secret meeting of FDR and Churchill outlining the goals of allied powers.
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German forces encircled leningrad, blockading it. This blockade lasted 871 days and thousands of people died but the city still didn't fall.
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In this battle soviet army stopped the advancement of the german on Moscow and later counter attacked pushing them away from Moscow.
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In order to win America in a war Japan decided to destroy american's Pasific fleet by a surprise attack on pearl harbor.
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In order to get colonial rulers out of Asia and in order to unite the whole world under Japanase empire , Japan invaded Thailand.
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After invading Thailand just in a few hours Japan attacked british forces in Malaya justifying that as freeing Asia from colonial rulers.
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Folllwoing the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, USA proclaimed war on Japan and Germany.
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After an attack on the pearl harbor, japanese decided to take away american colonies and invaded Philippines.
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Again under british contol, Burma was a very resource rich country. Justifying it as freeing Burma from colonialism Japan invaded it.
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After the fall of the Philippines, Japan sent the prisoners of war marching into the camps that were 65 miles away. Almost 70 percent of the prisoners died on that march.
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A major battle in the pacific that stops the advancement of the Japanese army.
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America won the battale between airplanes and fleets. It caused an irreparable damage to Japanase fleet.
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This battled allowed Allied powers to stop the german advancment into Egypt.
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This is the first offensive by the allied forces. They liberated the Solomon island.
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The bigggest battle of the Second World War. In this battle Soviets manged to completle destroy 6 th German army and capture general Paulus. After this battle Red army started to push german forces on all of the eastern front.
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After stoping the Axis forces, which were commanded by Rommel, in the First Battle of El Alamein, Allied forces were able to defeat those forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein and started advancing into Libya .
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This is a landing operation of american and british troops in Morocco in order to illiminate presence of axis powers in North Africa.
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this is a conference hold in morocco between America and
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It was a nazi offensive however it was really unsuccessful because USSR had amazing spy system and nazi moved only a few km into the front.
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After successful campaign in north Africa and capture of tuns allied forces captured Sicily forcing a revolution in Italy and a wish to quite war. However Hitler did not let this happen by creating a puppet state of northern Italy and war went on there.
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Soviet army crossed Dnieper and liberated kiev and east part of Ukraine.
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This is an agreement that states a surrender of Italian forces to allies. However, the war still went on in Italy because Germany created a puppet state of northern Italy which continued fighting against allies.
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Soviet army liberated crimea showing Turkey that allied forces will win and made her join the war.
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Allied army captured Rome and forced Italian government to quite a war. However, Germany created northern Italy which continued fighting.
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After Sicily felt Western powers finally decided that it is time to liberate France and the rest of northern Europe. This was the biggest landing in world war two. Because the german army was weakened by the red army on the eastern front this landing was pretty successful and allowed allies to move into Paris.
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With soviet advancment on the fronts they started to push germans away from the city and finaly freed the city.
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soviet army liberated Lithuania and Vilnius.
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After operation overlord allied forces soon liberated Paris and continued into west Germany.
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Soviet army liberated Talin and Estonia
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American army quickly conquered the Philippines and returned their colony.
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Soviet army liberated Belgrade and whole Yugoslavia.
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soviet army liberated Riga and Latvia.
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It was a last german offensive and a total failure of german army.
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Soviet army liberated whole Poland and Warsaw
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On this conference The big three decided how the map of Europe would look after the war and how each country is going to be split.
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Two days in a row allied forces had been dropping bombs on Dresden. In total 3900 tons of bombs were dropped on Dresden. The city was completly destroyed.
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Soviet army liberated in a very hard battle Budapest and later Hungary.
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America landed on Iwo Jima and conquered it to get the strategic location for attacking the mainland of japan. It was one of the bloodiest battles of the pacific.
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This was a battle for a strategic island that was suppose to be an airbase for future invasion of mainland Japan.
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Soviet army liberated half of Austria and Vienna.
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He understood that there is no force that can stop the advancement fo red army he along with other german leader decided to kill himself.
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After the fall of berlin and the fall of Rome army understood that the war is over and finally surrendered.
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Soviet army was quickly advancing finnaly reaching berlin. After the city fell it was just a matter of time when the war would be over.
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After the fall of Berlin it was just a matter of time when Nazi germany will surrender. This marked an end to the Second world war in Europe and a complete victory of soviet and allied forces.
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Soviet army liberated Prague and Czechoslovakia.
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After America created its first atomic weapon it decided to immediately use it to speed up the war. A month later japan surrendered.
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The second atomic bomb that Americans dropped on Japan to make it surrender.
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After atomic bombimg and loss of Manchuria to USSR Japan surrendered and the second world war officialy over.
