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World War I ended with the treaty of Versallies
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Adolf Hitler, a wondering ex-corpral finds himself sharing ideals with the newly formed Nazi Party
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Benito Mussolini forms together a party with a strong sense of Nationalism, winning the hearts of many Italians
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Under Vladimir Lenin, the communist USSR is formed from Russia
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The facist party takes over the Italian government, Musslini the new dictator.
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Lenin dies and Stalin takes over, he insisted on industrial growth, as shown in his 5-year plan.
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62 countries sign a pact.
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The newly militaristic government of Japan sets it's eyes on expanding the empire, and in 1931 starts its expansion with Manchuria.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected into office as the President of the United States
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Hitler gains the position of the haed leader of the Nazi party and when the Nazi party came into power in Germany, Hitler became the dictaor.
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Hitler meets up with his top generals to discuss his plans for the Third Reich.
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The US passes these acts in an effort to pervent direct intervention of the US in any foriegn wars.
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Hitler violates the terms of the Treaty of Versallies that limit the amount of war machines Germany can posess and starts building his army.
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Franco rasies a revloution to overthrow the current Spanish government.
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The Nazi invade the neutral land on the border of France that was once part of Germany
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Mussolini invades Ethiopia as the first step in the invasion of Africa.
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After on invasion of Manchuria, Japan quickly expands further going to China next.
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Hitler claims that the Austrians are harassing the German population in their country and invades it to "liberate the Germans."
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Germany makes an agreement to take Sudetenland
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Stalin forms a totalitarian government to futher his plans for Soviet Russia.
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Hitler uses the same excuse he used against the Austrians and invades Czechoslovakia.
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Franco overthrows the Spanish government and Spain becomes a totalitarian government.
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Germany and Russia agree to not fight eachother, and split Poland as part of the deal.
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Germany starts its attack on Poland using a strategic tactic called blitzkrieg.
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known as the Winter War, this confict gave Finland to the USSR.
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Germany invades and captures Denmark and Norway.
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with the three countries under Nazi control, Germany sets its sights on France.
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a large scale retreat of British, French, and Belgian forces across the English channel by whatever means possible.
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Together they invade France
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This is the beginning of what will be known as the Battle of Britain.
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Hitler demands that the terms of surrender be signed in the same train cart that the treaty of Versallies was signed in.