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Mein Kampf reflects Hitler's obsession with nationalism, racism, and anti-semitism.
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Mussolini suppressed rival parties and supported Facism when he became the new ruler of Itlay
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Hitler destroys socialism and communism.
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The Nuremberg Laws deprive Jews of German citizenship and place severe restrictions on them.
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German troops are sent in to "preserve order" and to enforce Nazi policy in Austria.
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British and French leaders appease Hitler and persuade the Czechs to surrender to Germany.
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Hitler promises to not expand his territory any further.
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Hitler signs a nonaggression pact with Stalin.
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This invasion triggers World War II
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Hitler invades these countries in order to prepare for the invasion of France.
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Germany and Italy invades France. Britian sends in troops to help out the French. Allied toops quickly are defeated and pushed back along the coast of the Enlish Channel. British and French forces successfully retreat across the English Channel to safety.
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German and Italian forces defeat the French resistance and force France to surrender.
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Operation Sea Lion was Hitler's plan to invade Britian. During the invasion he used a new technique, at the time, know as blitzkrieg. I don't know the actual day.
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German bombers bomb London for 57 consecutive nights.
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Hitler fails in his attempt to invade Britian
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Germany beings their invasion of the Soviet Union. The Nazi- Soviet Pact no longer exists, after Hitler defies the truce between him and Stalin.
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German forces fight Soviet troops for 2 1/2 years over Leningrad. Eventually the Soviet Union wins the battle.
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Japan executes a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii, Pearl Harbor. This event forces the U.S. to join World War II.
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Allied forces invade Midway Island
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Hitler and his German forces try to capture the city of Stalingrad.
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German commanders finally surrender to the Soviet Union. This was a turining point in the war for the Soviet Union.
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Allied forces invade Italy, and defeat the Italian forces in about a month. According to the text book the invasion began in July.
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Allies begin their invasion of France. They perform one of the largest amphibious attacks ever, and are able to catch the defending German troops off guard.
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Under pressure from all sides of France, German forces are forced to retreat. Allied troops are ablt to take back Paris.
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Allies bomb Dresden. As a beutiful and populated city, more than 135,000 Germans are estimated to have died in the bombing.
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Franklin Roosevelt dies unepexctantly and Harry Truman becomes the new president
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The Allies finally force Germany to surrender. The war in Europe officially ended.
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The first atomic bomb is tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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The Engloa Gay drops the first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It istantly kills more than 70,000 people
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The second atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki. More than 40,000 people die immediatly after the explosion.
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Emperor Hirohits intervenes and forces the government to surrender.
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The United States, Canda and ten other countries form a new alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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The Soviet Union forms its own military alliance know as the Warsaw Pact in oder to keep the "West" from dominating.
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The Berlin wall is built to divide democratic West Berlin and communist East Berlin.
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The United States and the Soviet Union begin Strategic Arms Limitation Talks to limit nuclear warfae. These talks lasted unitl May of 1972.
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Ronald Reagan launchs "Star Wars," a program to build a missle defense against a nuclear attack.
