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Japan invades Manchuria.
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Germany and Italy signed a treaty
Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation, the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced. -
Germany and Japan signed a pact
Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement. -
Initiating of the WW2 in the Pacific
Japan invades China. -
Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss.
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Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania.
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Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement and a secret codicil dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence. -
Germany invades Poland
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9. -
Italy enters the war
Italy invades southern France on June 21. -
The United States declares war on Japan
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US and British troops land on Sicily
US and British troops land on Sicily. By mid-August, the Allies control Sicily. -
Soviet troops liberate Kiev.
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Allied troops liberate Rome.
Within six weeks, Anglo-American bombers could hit targets in eastern Germany for the first time. -
US troops land in the Philippines.
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Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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Ending World War II
Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender, Japan formally surrenders.
