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In 1931, the japanse army, Kwangtung, attacked the chinese to gain control over the whole province.
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The Italian invasion of Ethiopia was initiated in the month of October 1935. It was a brief colonial war that is also remembered in history as the second Italo-Abyssinian wa
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A treaty of cooperation is signed on October between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. On November the Rome-Berlin axis is announced.
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Japan invades China, starting World War II in the pacific. , Imperial Japan's even more vast and equally merciless aggression in Asia.
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After a prolonged period of economic stagnation, political dictatorship, and intense Nazi propaganda inside Austria, German troops entered the country on March 12, 1938.
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The Munich Agreement was the agreement signed on 29 Sept 1938 between Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France. Forcing the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany.
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When the germans put them under pressure, the Slovaks claim their independence.
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In March, Britain and France guarantee the integrity of Poland's borders after Hitler violates Munich Agreement of 1938 by invading and dismembering Czechoslovakia.
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German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop contacted the Soviets to arrange a deal. Ribbentrop met with the Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov in Moscow and together they arranged two pacts, the economic agreement and the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.
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On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany launched an invasion of Poland. Two days later, Polish allies Britain and France declared war on Germany, marking the start of World War II.
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On September 1, 1939 German troops swarmed across the Polish border and unleashed the first Blitzkrieg the world had seen.
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Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, declares that the Polish government has ceased to exist. Hitler's troops were already wreaking havoc in Poland, having invaded on the first of the month
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The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.
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The Finns sue for an armistice and have to cede the northern shores of Lake Lagoda and the small Finnish coastline on the Arctic Sea to the Soviet Union.
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Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9.
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France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline. In southern France, a collaborationist regime with its capital in Vichy is established.
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The Soviet Union forces Romania to cede the eastern province of Bessarabia and the northern half of Bukovina to the Soviet Ukraine.
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The Germans quickly overrun the Baltic States and, joined by the Finns, lay siege to Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
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The surprise attack struck a critical blow against the U.S. Pacific fleet and drew the United States irrevocably into World War II.
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British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans.
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more than 100,000 American soldiers land on Leyte Island, in the Philippines, as preparation for the major invasion by Gen.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler's dreams of a "1,000-year" Reich.
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At 2:45 a.m. local time, on August 6, 1945, a B-29 Superfortress called Enola Gay, lifts off with two escort B-29s from Tinian, a small island in the Marianas. The planes fly 1,500 miles to Japan and the Enola Gay drops the bomb.
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The bomb was dropped by parachute from an American B29 Bomber at 1102 local time. It exploded about 1,625 ft (500m) above the ground and is believed to have completely destroyed the city, which is situated on the western side of the Japanese island of Kyushu.
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In the morning of 2 September 1945, more that two weeks after acceping the Allies terms, Japan formally surrendered.
