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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
10/29/1929	The US Stock Market Crashes	To preserve the neutrality and the peace of the United States and to secure the safety of its citizens and their interests.
09/19/1931	Japan siezes Manchuria	Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army and the Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukoku. The occupation lasted until the end of World War II.
01/01/1932	Mussolini takes power in Italy	Benito Mussolini was commonly known as El Dulce and created the Fascist party.
11/13/1932	FDR is elected President	FDR planned to rebuild America after a devastating depressing and used the quarter-back approach, he tried a lot of different approaches until certain ones finally worked.
01/30/1933	Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany	Adolf Hitler became the leader of the National Socialist German Workers party, also known as the Nazi Party.
01/01/1935	Hitler defies the Treaty of Versailles	Hitler defied the treaty by building up his army, taking back the Rhineland and beginning to expand his fleet of German U-Boats.
01/01/1935	France militarizes the Rhineland	Administered by the League of Nations in 1935, the region was returned to the German Reich. At the same time, in 1920, the districts of Eupen and Malmedy were transferred to Belgium (see German-Speaking Community of Belgium).
10/03/1935	Italy invades Ethiopia	Mussolini decided to invade Ethiopia to begin to expand German territories, he was siding with Adolf Hilter.
07/17/1936	Civil War erupts in Spain	The civil war began from defying the ways of Spanish General Francisco Franco.
07/01/1937	Japan invades China	After the Marco Polo bridge incident on July 7, 1937, that began a war that would kill millions and bring all countries into the Second Sino-Japanese War.
03/12/1938	Anschluss	Anschluss was the occupation and annexation of the German Republic Austria into Nazi Germany.
09/30/1938	Munich Conference	The purpose of the conference was to discuss the future of the Sudetenland in the face of territorial demands made by Adolf Hitler.
11/09/1938	Kristallnacht	A series of co-ordinated attacks against jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria.
01/01/1939	Nazi-soveit Pact	The Government of the German Reich and The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, directed by the wish to strengthen the cause of peace between Germany and the USSR
09/01/1939	Germany invades Poland	The invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and ended on 6 October 1939 with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.
09/01/1939	Phony War	The Phoney War was a phase early in World War II—in the months following Britain and France's declaration of war on Germany in September 1939 and preceding the Battle of France in May 1940—that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies against the German Reich
05/10/1940	Churchill is elected Prime Minister of England	On May 10th, 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister and during the war, he was the most dominant figure in British politics – a role that received huge praise once the war was over.
05/22/1940	Miracle at Dunkirk	350,000 people where trapped underground in Dunkirk and they were told close to none of them would survive. But, with the help of hundreds of civilians the helped to get almost 340,000 trapped people home and safe.
06/22/1940	France Surrenders	On 17 June, it was publicly announced France would ask for an armistice. On 22 June, an armistice was signed between France and Germany, going into effect on 25 June. For the Axis Powers, the campaign was a spectacular victory.
06/29/1940	Battle of Britian	The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940.
09/01/1940	Japan siezes French Indo-China	The seize began to prevent China from importing arms and fuel through the French Indochina.
01/28/1941	US neutrality act	The Neutrality Acts were laws that were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts.
03/11/1941	Lend Lease Act	Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in September 1939 but nine months before the U.S. entered the war in December 1941
08/23/1941	Atlantic Charter	The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement first issued in August 1941 that early in World War II defined the Allied goals for the post-war world.
12/07/1941	Attack on Pearl Harbor	Japanese planned a surprise attack on a US military base, Pearl Harbor, and many soldiers were killed and boats and ammunition destroyed.