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1931 September-Japan invades Manchuria for its’ resources—LoN protests

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1933 Jan- The start of the Holocaust and putting middle aged men Jews in concentration camps with gas chambers and killing the women, elderly and children.

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1933 March-Japan withdraws from LoN, no consequences

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1935 March-Germany begins to rearm under Hitler’s leadership violating ToV

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1935 October-Italy invades Ethiopia seeking revenge

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1936 March-Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland—buffer zone on German-French border

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July-Spanish Civil War begins—Hitler and Mussolini send troops to help Francisco Franco and the Nationalists

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October-Germany, Italy, and Japan begin to create the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis become known as the Axis Powers

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July 1937→ Japan invaded China, conquered Beijing and Nanjing

Tens of thousands raped and killed

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July-Japan invades China—Rape of Nanking takes place—Japanese treat Chinese brutally—rape over 20,000 women

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March-Hitler again violates the ToV by creating Anschluss—union between Germany and Austria, he annexes Austria

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September-Munich Conference, Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia—France and Britain give into Germany to preserve peace—they give him the Sudetenland (Stalin upset)

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March—Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovakia—West does nothing

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August, Hitler and Stalin sign a Nonaggression Pact—publicly pledge to never attack each other

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1940 Winston Churchill became prime minister of England- Vows to never surrender

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May 1940—Nazis conquer Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg—reach the French coast

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1940 France surrendered in June- Controlled by Germany until 1944 (D-day)

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1940 July Air war over Britian begin

Hitler eventually calls off attack, showed his advances can be blocked

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Germany plans to invade Britain—begins air attacks in July 1940

British use air force, radar, code-breaking to resist Germany

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Hitler plans to invade Soviet Union—takes Yugoslavia, Greece in April 1941

Invades unprepared S. Union in June 1941

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July 1941, Japan took French Indochina→ Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos

In response, the U.S. cut off oil shipments to Japan

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The Siege of Leningrad

Begins September 1941

Nazis surround the city, attempt to starve the inhabitants

1 million die during the 41-42 winter

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The Battle of Moscow

Begins October 1941

Nazis almost succeeded, but were overwhelmed by horrible winter

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May 1942 Battle of Coral Sea - Americans stop Japanese advance in May 1942

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June 1942 Axis forces captured Tobruk (libya) under the leadership of erwin rommel (the desert fox)

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The Battle of Stalingrad

Perhaps the most important battle of the entire war

Begins August 1942

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

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Nov 1942 British General Bernard Montgomery stopped the axis at the battle of el alamein (egypt)

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June 6th, 1944—Allies launch an invasion of France—D-Day (largest land invasion in history)

They succeed—Allies can now attack Germany from the West and East

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Aug 6th, 1945—U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima—75,000 die