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League of Nations was founded.
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Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party.
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Germany admitted to League of Nations.
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Stock Market on Wall Street crashes.
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Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany.
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Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States.
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First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.
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Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.
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Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops.
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Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party.
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Germany quits the League of Nations.
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Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference.
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Kristallnacht- The Night of Broken Glass
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Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
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Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree.
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United States and Britain declare war on Japan.
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Hitler declares war on the United States.
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First American forces arrive in Great Britain.
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Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.
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British Foreign Secretary Eden tells the British House of Commons of mass executions of Jews by Nazis; U.S. declares those crimes will be avenged.
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Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails.
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