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World war one was a major war centered on Europe. This conflict involved all of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies and the Central Powers.
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Hitler rapidly established a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich.
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The National Fascist Party was an Italian party, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of fascism.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the USSR) consisted of Russia and surrounding countries
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Stalin assumed the leading role in Soviet politics after Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924, and gradually marginalized his opponents until he had become the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union.
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The pact renounced aggressive war, prohibiting the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" except in matters of self-defense
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The Japanese occupation of Manchuria lasted until the end of World War II.
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FDR's combination of optimism and activism contributed to reviving the national spirit. Working closely with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in leading the Allies against Germany and Japan in World War II, he died just as victory was
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The acts passed between 1935 contained provisions limiting arms sales to nations that were not at war, gave the United States the power to keep citizens from traveling on belligerent ships or to belligerent nations, prohibited loans to belligerent nations and nations that were not repaying previous debts, and forbade American shipping to carry arms to belligerents.
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By March 1935, Hitler felt strong enough to go public on Nazi Germany's military expansion - which broke the terms of the Versailles Treaty.
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The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire.The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia and its annexation into the newly created colony of Italian East Africa.
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Franco and the military participated in a coup d'état against the Popular Front government. The coup failed and devolved into the Spanish Civil War during which Franco emerged as the leader of the Nationalists against the Popular Front government
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Under the terms of Versailles, the Rhineland had been made into a demilitarised zone. Germany had political control of this area, but she was not allowed to put any troops into it. Therefore, many Germans concluded that they did not actually fully control the area despite it being in Germany itself.
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Before 1937, China and Japan fought in small, localized engagements, so-called "incidents". Yet the two sides, for a variety of reasons, refrained from fighting a total war
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An important component of Nazi ideology. It served as the motivation for the expansionist policies of Nazi Germany, aiming to provide extra space for the growth of the German population, for a Greater Germany
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The Nazis organized a massive torchlight parade in Berlin to celebrate the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany
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At the end of 1937 Austria's conservative, authoritarian government found Germany conspiring with National Socialists inside its borders, with Germany aiming to take power in Austria.
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The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without the presence of Czechoslovakia
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The Spanish Civil War began in July 1936 and officially ended with Franco's victory in April 1939, leaving 190,000 to 500,000 dead.
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Although the USSR was nominally a union of Soviet republics with the capital in Moscow, it was in actuality a highly centralized state with a
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On November 30, 1939 the Soviet Union attempted to annex Finland.
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On March 15, 1939, the German Wehrmacht moved into the remainder of Czechoslovakia and, from Prague Castle, Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The occupation ended with the surrender of Germany following the Second World War.
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During the first years of the war, this economic agreement helped Germany bypass the British blockade.
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Blitzkrieg is an anglicized word describing all-mechanized force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery and air power, concentrating overwhelming force at high speed to break through enemy lines, and, once the latter is broken, proceeding without regard to its flank.
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In the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, executed on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War.
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The Battle of Dunkirk was a battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
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On June 22, France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline. In southern France, a collaborationist regime with its capital in Vichy is established.
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The German invasion of Norway was a dramatically daring military operation. The decision to embark on the venture was made by Adolf Hitler as Chief of State and also as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the German Reich.
