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Chapter 29 flashcards

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September 1939
Germany invades Poland. France and Britain declare war on Germany
June-July 1940
France falls to Germany. Germany begins Battle of Britain.
September 1940
Japan signs tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy
June 1941
Germany invades the Soviet Union
December 1941
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
June 1942
Japan defeated at Battle of Midway
November 1942
The allies push Rommel back in North Africa
January 1943
Germans surrender at Stalingrad
February 1943
Japan defeated at Guadalcanal
June 1944
D-Day invasion of Normandy
October 1944
Japan defeated at Battle of Leyte Gulf
May 1945
Germany surrenders
August-September 1945
U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Japan surrenders.
Aggression goes unchecked
Throughout the 1930s, challenges to peace followed a pattern. Dictators took aggressive action but met only verbal protests and pleas for peace from democracies. Mussolini, Hitler, and the leaders of Japan viewed that desire for peace as weakness and responded with new acts of aggression.
Japan overruns Manchuria and Eastern China
One of the earliest tests had been posed by Japan. Japanese military leaders and ultra nationalists thought that Japan should have an empire equal to those of the Western powers. In pursuit of this goal, Japan seized Manchuria in 1931. When the League of Nations condemned the aggression, Japan simply withdrew from the organization. Japan's easy success strengthened the militarist faction in Japan.
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