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In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler revived the idea of Aryan Superiority and expressed and especially hateful view of Jews.
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Stalin and Hitler signed a ten-year Nonaggression Pact which eliminated the danger of a Soviet invasion from the east.
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Hitler joined the Nazi Party which involved nazism.
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Hitler tried to overthrow the German government but gotten sentenced to prison.
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Japanese claimed the chinese soldiers in the southern Manchuria. They wanted to blow up the railway line.
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The army had seized all of Manchuria.
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No other persecution of Jews in modern history equals the extend and brutality of the Holocaust.
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Joseph Stalin created The Great Purge.
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Hitler signed an alliance with Mussolini. Germany and Italy, joined later by Japan, became known as the Axis Powers.
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Japan resumed its invasion of china.
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Joseph Stalin arrested more than 7 million, a million were executed, and a million were in labor camps by 1939
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British and French pledged their support to Poland, agreeing to come to its aid if Germany invaded.
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Hitler invaded Poland
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An American opinion shifted even further against the Axis Power when Germany invaded Poland.
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Britian and France declared war on Germany
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Japan prime minister announced a Great East Asia co-prosperity sphere to be led by the Japanese, extending from manchuria in the north to the Dutch East Indies in the south.
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From 1940 to 1944 the percentage of African American women industrial jobs increased from 6.8% to 18%
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France fell to the Germans, and Hitler prepared to invade Britian.
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Germany/Hitler turned to the Luftwaffe to destroy Britian's air defenses
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Congress authorized the 1st Peacetime Draft called the Selective Training and Service Act, which required all males age 21-36 to register for military service.
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Congress authorized the Selective Training and Service Act, which required all males age 21-36 to register for military service.
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Victory Gardens were a popular idea to help support the war. They were planted to add to the home food supply and replace farm produce sent to feed the soldiers.
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Japenese Americans were a tiny minority in the United States.
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Japenese Americans were a tiny minority in the United States.
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Law that authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American Security.
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The Office of Price Administration was created to control inflation by limiting prices and rents.
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Japanese signed a neutrality pact with the soviet union.
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Hitler launched an attack against the Soviet Union.
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The President signed Executive Order 8802, opening jobs training programs in defense plants to all Americans "without discrimination because of race, creed, color, or national origin. That created the Fair Employment Practices committee to hear complaints about discrimination.
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The United States entered the war
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"A date which will live infamy, Roosevelt the next day asked congress to declare war with Japan.
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China joined the Allies by declaring war with German, Italy, and Japan.
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African Americans were given the opportunity to fight in the war.
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The National War Labor Board declared that women who performed "work of the same quality and quantity" as men should recieve equal pay.
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Hitler ordered Einsatzgruppen, or mobile killing squads, to shoot communist political leaders as well as all Jews in Germany occupied territory.
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President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the secretary of war to establish military zones on the west coast and remove "any of all persons from such zone."
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Roosevelt established the office war info. to work with magazine publishers, advertising agencies, and radio stations to create things and stir Americans patriotic feelings.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe. It lasted until January 31,1943. The Germans lost.
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France attacked Germans using airborne British and American soldiers that parachuted behind enemy lines (23,000 troops). This attack pushed Germans back to germany.
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Germany launched a counterattack in Belgium and Luxembourg. The German attack smashed into the U.S. 1st Army and pushed it back, forming a bulge in the Allied line which became the Battle of Bulge.
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An International Military Tribunal composed of members selected by the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and France conducted the Nuremberg Trials.
