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Adolf Hitler rose to power during a time of conflict and political instability. He discovered that he was good at being a public speaker when he joined the Nazi Party. When the Great Depression came he was able to become Chancellor 1933. He was responsible for thousands of deaths because of a strong anti-semitism belief.
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The Germans used a new tactic in WWII called blitzrieg. They used blitzrieg to desolate almost everyone, until the Battle of Britain. This battle was the first time they had failed. The British were aided by radar, so they saw the Germans coming.
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Under General Hideki Tojo, the Japanese were able to catch the United States completely off guard. On December 7, 1941, the attack began. Some 2,400 Americans died.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor stripped the Americans of their isolationism. On December 8, the United States declared war on Japan. The states then joined teh Allies in the global fight against the Axis Powers.
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Nearly 1 million Allied forces invaded France. June 6, 1944 marks a huge victory for the Allies. By the end of August, the Germans had surrendered Paris.
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On August 6, 1945, a United States airplane drops the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. When this didn't work the States dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Total, around 145,000 Japanese people died with the dropping of those two bombs.
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Between 1945 and 1945 trials were held in Nuremburg Germany. The trials brought justice to the former Nazi and military leaders. Several dozen of these men were sentenced to death for their roles in the Holocaust.
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In 1948 the National Party instituted a policy of apartheid or apartness. This policy divided people into four racial groups. These groups were: White, Black, Colored or Mixed Ancestry, and Asian.
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On October 1, 1949 Mao Zedong announced the formation of the People's Republic of China. First he rebuilty China in a communist ideaology. When losing some power, Mao initiated a new movement called the Cultural Revolution.
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After Japan's surrender in WWII, the Allies gained control fo the Korean Peninsula. In June, 1950, the North Koreans attacked South Korea. During 1951, the war settled into a stalemate.
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In 1959, rebels under the leadership of Fidel Castro overthrew Cuba's dictator and installed a Communist government. During the Bay of Pigs invasion the invaders were defeated. In 1962, there was a confrontation between the United States, and the USSR over the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, this is called the Cuban Missile crisis.
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In August 1964 U.S. president yndon B. Johnson informed Congress that two U.S. Navy ships sailing off North Vietnam's coast had been the victims of an unprovoked attack by North Vietnamese gunboats. 1968 the Tet Offensive occured, which is when the North Vietnamese army and the Vietcong carried out a daring strick against cities and other targets across South Vietnam. The United States reached a peace agreement with North Vietnam in 1973.
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Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985. He saw a need for glasnost and perestroika, which means openess to talk about problems, and restructuring, refering to the reform of the USSR economic and political system. He pushed through a number of major reforms.
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After negotiations failed to convince Iraq to leave Kuwait, the United States led a multinational force into battle in the Persian Gulf War. In the early 1990s, 43 American Soldiers died in the African country of Somalia. In 1994, U.S. forces helped to restore Haiti's elected government. after a coup.
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The Soviet Union consisted of 15 seperate republics. By the end of 1991, it ceased to function. After more than 40 years of tension and conflict, the Cold War was finally over.
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