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With Adolf Hitler high up in the food chain.
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Adolf Hitler is now the dictator of Nazi Germany.
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The Second Sino-Japanese War, mainly fought between Republic China and Imperialist Japan broke out.
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Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles and builds his army, navy and air force.
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The famous quote: "there will be peace in our time." Not quite so, it seems.
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Just like we saw in the movie, this was when the Nazis took Czechoslovakia.
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a pact that they will divide Poland if Germany invades Poland and that the USSR will not intervene.
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In the treaty, if anyone invades Poland, that Britain and the allies will help Poland.
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The ultimate trigger that started World War 2
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This is when World War 2 in Europe started.
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Three strong military powers unite and join forces against the rest of the world
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The Japanese bomb the major military base on Hawaii called Pearl Harbour, resulting in 2,300 casulties and major damage to the U.S Navy.
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The Pacific War begins.
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Before there were small scale skirmishes that the rest of the world largely ignored, now the whole world knew about the war between China and Japan.
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The Japanese start taking over pacific islands one by one.
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Now, the United States have officially joined the war.
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The construction started in early 1942, the exact date is unknown.
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Bataan Death March begins as 76,000 Allied POWs including are forced to walk 96.5 kilometres under a blazing sun without food or water toward a new POW camp and many die and suffered heavy abuse from Japanese.
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Japan's first defeat in the War of the Pacific. This is the first time in history that two opposing aircraft carriers fought only using aircraft without either aircraft carrier even seeing each other.
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Decisive turning point in the War in the Pacific, as the war begons to turn in the U.S's favour
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The Red Cross announces that Japan refuses the safe passage and delivery of supplies to prisoners of war in Asia.
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Japanese floatplanes drop incendiary bombs on US forests in Oregon. This mission failed because of fire lookouts in the forests and the weather conditions being not suitable for fire.
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This was the decisive battle turning point in Europe. Although the USSR suffered tremendous losses in the early stages of the German offensive, in the severe Russian winter, many tanks and infantry got stuck in mud and in below 37 celsius below zero. The ill prepared Wehrmacht (german army), suffered severe casulties and were driven back to Germany. It was one of the bloodiest battles in history with 2 million casulaties.
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This was when the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rebelled against the Nazis, tragically, they were crushed and there were reprisals throughout the area,
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The railway finished its 420km of construction and at a heavy cost of over 12,000 allied POW and 90,000 civilian deaths.
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Germany surrenders unconditionally, is there any more to say?
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It's commonly called V-J day.
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The long second Sino-Japanese War ends, with over 11,098,700+ casualties on both sides. After a long struggle, Republic China (with foreign aid) wins this war and China starts a civil war soon thereafter.
