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Japan invades Manchuria
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Neutrality Acts of the US
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Italy takes over Ethiopia
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Hitler enters France
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Anschluss of Austria
Union of austria and Germany violtaed versallies treaty, created a brief war scare -
Munich Conference
British and French leaders chose appeasment, they caved into Hitlers demands persuaded Czechs to surrender that Sudeten land without a fight -
Hitler takes over Czechoslovakia
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
Hitler feared communisim as Stalin feard facism. they agreed not to fight and divide Poland -
Invasion of Poland
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Gensis of WWII
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Hitler launches blizkrieg on Norway and Belgium
A series of bombing against Norway and Denmark. -
Hitler slams Netherland Belgium
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Germany enters France
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France falls
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Axis powers take over North Africa And the Balkans
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Opertaion Sea Lion and Blitz On London
Plans for an invasion of Britain with launches of massive airstrikes against the island nation -
Operation Sea Lion Fails
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Hitler enacts Operation Barbarossa
Plan took name from medieval Germanic leader Frederick Barborossa, declared ural mountains, siberia, ukraine under german control. -
Germany's Siege of Leningrad-Russia
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Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
Japanese airplanes bombed the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, took 2,400 lives and destroyed battleships and aircraft. -
US declares war on Japan
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Germany and Italy declare war on the US
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Japan loses the Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle lasted for five days in May, and for the first time ever battleships have never saw eachother. -
Japan loses the Battle of Midway
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The Big Three Meet
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin agreed to end war in europe and finish in Asia. -
Allies Seize North Africa
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Hitler Launches New Offensive on Stalingrad
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Germans Surrender at Stalingrad
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Italians Surrender to Allies
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Yalta Conference
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan within three months of Germany surrendering. -
D-Day Assualt
Allied planes dropped paratroopers behind enemy lines and ships ferried in 156,000 allied troops. -
Kamikaze Missions
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Battle of the Bulge
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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British and American Forces Cross Rhine/Battle of Okinawa
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FDR Dies, Truman Becomes President
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Charter of the United Nations
Delegates from 50 nations conveyed in San Franciso to draft a charter. -
Hitler commits Suicide
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Germany Surrenders
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V-E Day
War in Europe ends( Victory in Europe) -
First Test of the Manhattan Project/Truman Warns Japan to Surrender
Successful test of ther first atomic bomb at Alamogordoa, New Mexico. Pres. Truman orderd Japan to surrender or face complete destruction and utter devastation. -
US drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Enola Gay- American plane dropped atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima instantly killing more than 70,000. the next day the US dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki killing more than 40,000. -
Japan Surrenders
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Formal Peace Treaty Signed on the American Battleship Missouri
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Cold war begins
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Nuremberg Trials
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Truman Doctorine Adopted
Rooted idea of containment limiting communism to areas already under soviet control -
Marshall Plan Enacted
Massive aid package to Western European lands. -
The Division of Germany
Soviet Union took reparations for its massive war losses by dismantling factories to help re build the Soviet Union. -
The Berlin Airlift
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NATO Signed
North Atlantic Treat Organization (NATO) signed. -
Warsaw Pact
A response to NATO by the Soviet Union, forming its own military alliance
