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  Hitler joined a small political group that became the National Socialist German Workers Party or Nazi Party
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  By signing the Kellog-Briand Pact, Japan condemned war and pledged to solve all disagreements peacefully.
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  (Picture 2)(Picture1)The Great Depression lasted from 1929 until the United States entered WW 2 in 1941
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  Black Tuesday was the first crash of the stock market that lead to the depression
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  Created Hawley-Smoot Tariff to protect American industries from foreign competitors
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  Manchuria was taken over by Japanese military
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  (Picture of Nye Committee)The Nye Committee was a committee in the United States Senate which studied the causes of United States involvement in World War I.
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  United States cuts tariffs on foreign goods to benefit trade and international relations
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  Created series of neutrality acts: Banneed the united states from providing weapons for countries at war
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  Banned loans to such nations at war
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  Hitler allied with Mussolini creating the Rome-Berlin Axis
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  Permitted trade with fighting nations in nonmilitary goods as long as those nations paid cash and transported the cargo themselves
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  United States remained isolationists protecting Atlantic and Pacific while other coutries were being taken over
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  The nationalists army finally took the Spanish Capital of Madrid and ended the civil war.
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  Hitler gained control over the western half of Czechoslovakia
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  Hitler slices through Netherlands, Belgium,and Luxemburg.
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  The war begins when Hitler invades Poland
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  Britian and France declare war on germany
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  The phony war came to an end as Hitler began a successful attack on Denmark and Norway
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  Britain scientists cracked the code that Germany used for top-secret communications
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  There were Limited supplies for Japan to buy from the United States
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  Hitler ordered massive bombing raids on London and other cities to try to break British peoples will to resist
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  Roosevelt proposes Lend-Lease program to aid the allies
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  Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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  Germany and Italy declared war on the United States