Hawaii
Pearl Harbour
the West wasn't the only scene of imperialistic attitudes. In Asia, Japan was making quick advances down the Pacific coast of Asia, once British and French colonial land. After conquering most of the coast, Japan saw America as their only threat. To eliminate this, the Japanese air force attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbour. The attack caused less damage then was intended (it is possible that America knew of the attack and pulled their more important ships out early. This incident caused Britan and America to decalre war on Japan and was the force that caused America to join the second world war.
Related: Anti-Comintern Pact | Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference | Coral Sea and Midway, Battle of Stalingrad, El Alamein, Dieppe Raid | Battle of Kursk | D-Day | Fall of France, Battle of Britain | Invasion of Poland, Moscow Pact | Anti-Commintern Pact | Appeasement, formation of the Axis, Reocupation of the Rhineland | Peace of Paris

Off the Brirtish coast
The Atlantic charter
German submarines had been getting near the coast of Britain and to keep the sea routes open, Britain had to fight the Germans in a naval battle.
Related: Anti-Comintern Pact | Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference | Coral Sea and Midway, Battle of Stalingrad, El Alamein, Dieppe Raid | Battle of Kursk | D-Day | Fall of France, Battle of Britain | Invasion of Poland, Moscow Pact | Anti-Commintern Pact | Appeasement, formation of the Axis, Reocupation of the Rhineland | Peace of Paris

European Russia
Opperation Barbarossa
To get more lebensraum (German word for living space), Hitler decided on the invasion of Russia. He massed literal groups of armies (not just one army but numerous armies in each group) along the Russian border. Their was one group in the North which was to take Leningrad (symbolistic because this was where the Communist revolution had begun), one in the center to take Moscow and one in the south to take Stalingrad and the oil which surrounded it. Hitler lost this battle because of the troops' inability to take the cities in which they were to spend the winter. When winter came, the German troops were held on the outskirts of the Russian cities (the Russian people managed to keep them out) and were destroyed by the Russian Red Army, which had returned from fighting Japan.
Related: Pearl Harbour | Anti-Comintern Pact | Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference | Coral Sea and Midway, Battle of Stalingrad, El Alamein, Dieppe Raid | Battle of Kursk | D-Day | Fall of France, Battle of Britain | Invasion of Poland, Moscow Pact | Anti-Commintern Pact | Appeasement, formation of the Axis, Reocupation of the Rhineland | Peace of Paris

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