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Japan invades Manchuria for natural resources.
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Hitler of the Nazi party becomes Chancellor of Germany promising to bring Germany back to glory.
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Hitler and the Nazi Party use the fire to gain control of the German government.
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Hitler withdraws Germnay from the league in order to begin re-arming and mobilizing his German army.
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Mussolini and the Italian forces invade and take over the country of Ethipoia on the horn of Africa
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Germany has entered the DMZ between France and Germany
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Austria was annexed into the German Third Reich on 12 March 1938
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Nazi Germany invaded and occupied the Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia
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leaders of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia
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Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, which gives Nazi Germnay the Sudetenland
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Representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other.
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Germany invades Poland after a staged Polish attack on Germany
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British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced that unless Germany agreed to withdraw their recent aggression against Poland, a state of war would exist between the two countries.
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The evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France as the German armies were closing in on them.
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The successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, defeating primarily French forces.
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The Japanese had a suprise attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor
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United States Congress declared war upon the Empire of Japan in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day.
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Italy surrenders to the allies, and signs an unconditional armistice with the Allies.
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The Allied invasion of Normandy begins into France
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The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down.
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Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide by gun shot in his bunker in Berlin.
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The Soviet attack on Berlin was the final major offensive in World War 2 and led to the fall of Berlin.
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the German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France.
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This day marks the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.
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The participants were the victorious allies of World War II, who had gathered to decide how to administer Germany
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the United States used its atomic bomb the, "Little Boy" against Hiroshima, Japan. This atomic bomb, was the equivalent of 20000 tons of TNT
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The, "Fat Man" plutonium bomb is dropped on Nagaski, Japan.
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US citizens celebrate the victory over Japan in Times Square
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The surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, brought the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
