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Mukden Incident between Nationalist Chinese and Imperial Japanese, leads to invasion of Manchuria by Japan

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September 18, 1931

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Italy invades Ethiopia, lasts until May 1936

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October 3, 1935

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Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland

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March 7, 1936

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Outbreak of Spanish Civil War

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July 18, 1936

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Rome-Berlin Axis announced

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November 1, 1936

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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign Anti-Comintern Pact

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November 25, 1936

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Japan invades China, starts Sino-Japanese War

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July 7, 1937

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Nazi Germany carries out Anschluss with Austria

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March 11-13, 1938

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Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Great Britain, France sign Munich Agreement, ceding Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia to Germany

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September 29, 1938

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Germany absorbs remainder of Czechoslovakia in violation of Munich Agreement

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March 15, 1939

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Spanish Civil War ends

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April 1, 1939

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Italy annexes Albania

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April 12, 1939

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Germany and Soviet Union sign Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, includes secret protocol for division of Poland

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August 23, 1939

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Hitler signs ordering for invasion of Poland.

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August 31, 1939

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Germany invades Poland, starting WWII in Europe

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September 1, 1939

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Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

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September 3, 1939

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Soviet Union invades Poland

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September 17, 1939

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Surrender of Warsaw and partition of Poland between Germany and Soviet Union

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September 27, 1939

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Soviet Union invades Finland, starting Winter War that lasts until March 12, 1940

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November 30, 1939

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Germany invades Denmark and Norway, Denmark surrenders immediately, Norway holds out until June 9

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April 9, 1940

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Germany begins invasion of Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium) and France

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May 10, 1940

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Evacuation of British forces from Dunkirk begins

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May 26, 1940

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Italy declares war on France.

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June 10, 1940

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France signs armistice with Germany, leaves Great Britain as only major European power opposed to Hitler

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June 22, 1940

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Battle of Britain begins, lasts until October 31
July 10, 1940
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Italy invades British-controlled Egypt
September 13, 1940
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Japanese troops occupy French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia)
September 22, 1940
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Germany, Italy, Japan sign Tripartite Agreement
September 27, 1940
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Italy invades Greece
October 28, 1940
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Lend-Lease Bill introduced in US Congress
January 10, 1941
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Hitler dispatches Afrika Korps to North African to aid Italy
February 6, 1941
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Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
April 6, 1941
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Germany launches Operation Barbarossa, invasion of Soviet Union
June 22, 1941
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Japanese surprise attack of US Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
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US declares war on Japan, Japan invade Philippines and Singapore
December 8, 1941
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Germany and Italy declare war on US
December 11, 1941
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Wannsee Conference, lays groundwork for Final Solution
January 20, 1942
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Battle of the Java Sea
February 27, 1942
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Last American forces in Bataan Peninsula surrender
April 9, 1942
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Doolittle Raid on Tokyo
April 18, 1942
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American forces on island of Corregidor in Manila Bay surrender
May 6, 1942
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Battle of the Coral Sea halts Japanese attempt to seize Port Moresby
May 7-8, 1942
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Battle of Midway turns tide of war in Pacific in favor of US
June 4-7, 1942
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US Marines land on island of Guadalcanal, starting American offensive in Pacific
August 7, 1942
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Battle of Stalingrad begins
August 23, 1942
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British Eighth Army in Egypt scores key victory over Rommel at Second Battle of El Alamein
October 23-24, 1942
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American and British troops invade Vichy French-controlled North African in Operation Torch
November 8, 1942
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Soviets launch major counter-offensive in Stalingrad
November 19, 1942
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Casablanca Conference
January 14-24, 1943
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German Sixth Army surrenders at Stalingrad
January 31, 1943
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Battle of Kasserine Pass
February 14, 1943
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins
April 19, 1943
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Axis forces in Tunisia surrender to Allies
May 12, 1943
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Battle of Kursk
July 5, 1943
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Americans and British begin invasion of Sicily in preparation for invasion of Italy
July 10, 1943
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Mussolini ousted as prime minister, replaced by Pietro Badoglio
July 25, 1943
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Allied troops land in Italy
September 3, 1943
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Italy surrenders to Allies, leading to German seizure of key installations and sites around the country
September 8, 1943
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American troops come ashore at Salerno, Italy
September 9, 1943
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Americans attack island of Tarawa in Pacific
November 20-23, 1943
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Cairo Conference
November 22-26, 1943
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Allies land at Anzio, Italy, aim to break stalemate along Gustav Line anchored on Monte Cassino
January 22, 1944
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Allied bombing of abbey at Monte Cassino
February 15, 1944
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Allies break through Gustav Line in central Italy
May 11, 1944
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Allies carry out Operation Overlord, invasion of France (D-Day)
June 6, 1944
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Americans invade island of Saipan in Pacific
June 17, 1944
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"The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot," aka Battle of the Philippines Sea
June 19, 1944
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Operation Bagration launched by Red Army on Eastern Front
June 22, 1944
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US secures Saipan
July 10, 1944
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Failed assassination attempt against Hitler by members of German Army
July 20, 1944
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Liberation of Majdanek
July 24, 1944
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Operation Cobra allows Allies to break out of Normandy beachheads
July 25, 1944
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Warsaw Uprising begins, as Polish Home Army tries to wrest control of Warsaw from Nazis; continues until early October when Germans succeed in stopping it
August 1, 1944
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Americans and French carry out Operation Dragoon, invasion of southern France
August 15, 1944
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Paris liberated by Free French forces
August 25, 1944
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Americans land on island of Peleliu in Pacific
September 15, 1944
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Operation Market-Garden begins
September 17, 1944
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Americans land on Leyte, beginning American liberation of the Philippines
October 20, 1944
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systematic bombing of Japan by US begins
November 1944
80
German offensive in the Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge) starts
December 16, 1944
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German advance in Battle of the Bulge halted 30 miles west of Bastogne (Belgium)
December 25, 1944
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German siege of Bastogne lifted by American armor units
December 26, 1944
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Soviets launch major offensive along Eastern Front, will lead to capture of Warsaw and Krakow
January 12, 1945
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Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
January 27, 1945
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Yalta Conference
February 4-11, 1945
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Dresden bombing carried out by British and US
February 13-15, 1945
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US Marines land on island of Iwo Jima in Pacific
February 19, 1945
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Americans cross into Germany at Remagen
March 7, 1945
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Firebombing of Tokyo
March 9, 1945
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American invasion of island of Okinawa begins
April 1, 1945
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Liberation of Buchenwald
April 11, 1945
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FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes president
April 12, 1945
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Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
April 15, 1945
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Soviets launch final offensive against Berlin
April 16, 1945
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Liberation of Dachau
April 29, 1945
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Hitler commits suicide in underground bunker as Soviets close in on central Berlin
April 30, 1945
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Germany surrenders to Allies
May 7, 1945
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Trinity Test, first successful detonation of atomic weapon, conducted at Alamogordo, NM
July 16, 1945
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Potsdam Conference
July 17-August 2, 1945
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First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
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Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria
August 8, 1945
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Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
August 9, 1945
103
Japan accepts unconditional surrender terms
August 10, 1945
104
Japan signs surrender agreement in Tokyo Harbor, ending WWII
September 2, 1945
105
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials begin
November 20, 1945
106
Tokyo War Crimes Trials begin
May 3, 1946

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