WWII: 1931-1945

1933: Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
1935: Hitler denounces the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles.
- Nuremburg Laws
- Italy invades Ethiopia.
1936: Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland.
- The Spanish Civil War begins.
- The Rome-Berlin Axis is formed.
1938: The Anschluss: Germany annexes Austria.
- The Munich Conference: The Sudetenland is awarded to Germany; Chamberlain announces "Peace in Our Time."

1939: Germany invades Czechoslovakia.
- Germany and Italy create the Pact of Steel.
- Germany and the Soviet Union form a Nonaggression Pact.
- Germany invades Poland.
1940: Germany conquers Denmark and Norway.
- Germany conquers the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
- Italy enters the war as Germany's ally.
- France signs an armistice with Germany.
- The Battle of Britain begins.
- Italy invades Egypt and Greece.
1941: Germany conquers Yugoslavia and Greece.
- Hitler begins Operation Barbarosa and invades the Soviet Union.
1942: British and American forces begin attacking in North Africa
1943: Roosevelt and Churchill meet at Casablanca.
- The Battle of Stalingrad ends with a German defeat.
- German and Italian forces in Tunisia surrender.
- American and British troops invade Sicily and Italy.
1944: D-Day invasion of Normandy opens up a second front.
- The Battle of the Bulge
1945: The Yalta Conference.
- Germany surrenders.
- Potsdam Conference.

1931: Mukden Incident: Japan invades Manchuria.
1937: Japan attacks China.
1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
1942: Japan conquers the Philippines.
- American forces take Guadalcanal, beginning American island hopping across the Pacific.
1944: American troops under MacArthur land in the Philippines.
1945: Atomic bombs are dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Japan surrenders.

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