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1937, July

Japan invaded china, conquered Beijing and Nanjing

Effect: tens of thousands raped and killed

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1939, September

Nazis invade Poland using the

Blitzkrieg

Effect:

France and Britain declare war on Germany, WWII begins.

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1939, September

Britain and France declare war on Germany

Effect: Poland falls and surrenders

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1939, October

Soviets capture Poland, Lithuania and Latvia

Effect: Annexed eastern polish territory

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1940, March

slowed in Finland

Effect: Finland surrenders

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1940, March

Finland surrenders singing the treaty of Moscow

Effect: led to breakdown of Finnish defenses

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1940, April

Hitler captures Denmark

Effect: leading to a period of occupation with varying degrees of cooperation and resistance from the Danish people.

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1940, May

Nazis conquer Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg

Affect: Reach french coast

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1940, June

France surrenders

Affect: controlled by Germany until 1944

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1940, July

Germany plans to invade Britain

Affect: begins air attacks

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1941, April

Hitler plans to invade the Soviet union

Effect: takes Yugoslavia and Greece

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1941, May

Battle of Britain

Affect: Air war over Britain

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1941, June

Hitler invades the unprepared Soviet union and calls it " operation Barbarossa"

Effect: Marked a major escalation in WWII

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1941, July

Japan took french Indochina, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laus

Effect: in response the US cut off oil shipments to Japan

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1941, September

Nazis surround the city, attempt to starve the inhabitants

Affect: 1 Million die during the 41-42 winter

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1941, October

Nazis almost succeed but were overwhelmed by the horrible winter

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1941, December

Japan attacks pearl harbor

Effect: Congress declares war on Japan

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1941, December

Japan invaded the Philippines in late December

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Dutch East Indies monument, Almelo, Netherlands

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1942, February

Japan took Dutch east indies

Effect: Led to the collapse of dutch colonial rule

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Coral Sea Resort & Casino, Tandai Highway Town Ground, Honiara, Solomon Islands

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Coral Sea Resort & Casino, Tandai Highway Town Ground, Honiara, Solomon Islands

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Coral Sea Resort & Casino, Tandai Highway Town Ground, Honiara, Solomon Islands

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1942, May

Battle of the coral sea

Effect: Japan advances

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1942, May

Japan has conquered Burma

Effect: Disrupting allied supply lines to china

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1942, August

Perhaps the most important battle of the entire war

Affect: Nazis captured the city but are surrounded and forced to surrender in February of 1943

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1942, June

Axis forces captured Tobruk

Effect: captured under the leadership of a German General nicknamed (The desert fox)

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Midway Atoll, United States Minor Outlying Islands

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Midway Atoll, United States Minor Outlying Islands

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Midway Atoll, United States Minor Outlying Islands

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1942, June

U.S destroyed Japans naval fleet

Effect: Japan retreated

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1942, August

Battle of Guadalcanal

Effect: U.S. fought to destroy Japanese airbase

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1942, November

British general Bernard Montgomery stopped the axis

Effect: They advance at the battle of El Alamein

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1943, February

most important battle of the entire war, it begins in August 1942

Effect: Nazis capture the city but are surrounded and forced to surrender

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1944, June

Operation Overlord "D-Day" American, British, french and Canadian troops storm the beaches

Effect: The Germans don't know what's coming, Largest land and sea attack in history

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1944, September

Allies had liberated France, Belgium and Luxembourg

Effect: Invasion of Nazis could begin

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1944, October

Fought The battle of Leyte Gulf

Effect: Japanese navy was badly damaged

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1944, December

battle of the bulge-last German offensive

Effect: After the battle Germany retreats

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Iwo Jima, Iōjima, Ogasawara, Tokyo, Japan

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Iwo Jima, Iōjima, Ogasawara, Tokyo, Japan

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Iwo Jima, Iōjima, Ogasawara, Tokyo, Japan

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1945, March

American forces captured Iwo Jima

Effect: American troops then took Okinawa in June 1945- Japan suffered many casualties

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1945, April

The allies are in Germany and the soviets surround Berlin

Effect: Hitler commits suicide, Berlin falls

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1945, August

The U.S had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Effect: 75,000 die

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1945, August

U.S dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki

Effect: 70,000 people died

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1945, September

Japan has officially surrendered and WWII is over