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There were countless invasions during World War II. I'll give a summary of the major invasions here:

[pre-WWII]: Japan invades China in 1937

1939

Germany invades Czechoslovakia

Germany and Soviet Union invade Poland

Soviet Union invades Finland

1940

Germany invades Denmark and Norway

Germany invades Holland, Belgium, Luxemborg, and France

1941

Germany invades Greece and Crete

Germany invades the Soviet Union

Japan invades British-held Singapore, Malaya, and Hong Kong, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, the American Pacific territories of Guam and Wake Island, and Borneo.

1942

Japan invades the New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Aleutian Islands

Allies invade Solomon Islands and Vichy-French Northwest Africa

1943

All of Axis-held North Africa retaken by Allies

Allies invade Sicily, then Italy and Corsica

Allies invade rest of the Solomon Islands and invade the Gilbert Islands

1944

Allies invade France

Allies invade the Marshall Islands, Marianas Islands, and the Philippines

1945

Allies invade Germany

Soviet army captures Berlin on May 2 - Victory in Europe Day soon thereafter (May 8)

Allies invade Iwo Jima and Okinawa

Soviet Union invades Japanese-held Manchuria

Japan surrenders, August 1945; Victory in Japan Day is September 2

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