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Was a military conference called by President Warren G Harding and held in Washington
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Attempted to overthrow the German government in 1923 failed, Adolf Hitler sent to jail
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Hitler became Leader of Nazi Party Totalitarian dictator Eliminated political opponents
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Italy's history with Ethiopia was several decades old, Italian effort to establish a colony there in the late 1800s had ended in a crushing military defeat at the hands of the Ethiopians.
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Pledged make Italy an imperial powerInvaded Ethiopia in 1935League of Nations and U.S. were unwilling to take formal steps to punish Mussolini.
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Was attracted interest and involvement from many countries in Europe and in North America, Fascist Italy and Nazi for the Nationalists were led by general Francisco Franco.
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Germany attacks Poland German criminal in Polish clothing – proof! Blitzkrieg, but Germany victory by end of the month.
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Britain & France declare war on Germany Known as the Allies
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German warships enter major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, German forces occupy Copenhagen, among other Danish cities.
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Attacked through the Ardennes Forest in Northern France Maginot Line – French defenses south of the Ardennes
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U.S Pacific fleet , 20 warships, 200 aircraft destroyed, and 2,400 Americans killed. Isolationism got destroyed
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Roosevelt issued that to gave the armed forces the power of establish military zones and gave people to leave zones
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Rommel’s forces defeated 20,000 U.S. soldiers killed or wounded in six months, U.S. invades North Africa under direction of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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president Roosevelt announced the creation of war Refugee Board, this organization was told to “take all the measures to rescue victims if enemy danger de
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France beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II
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suddenly and vice president, Harry Truman takes over
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marked the formal end of the war in Europe
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Divide & occupy Germany, divide Berlin and stalin promised to hold elections in Eastern European countries after the war.
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three leaders of the 15 Soviet Republics Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian released a declaration known as the Belavezha Accords, which declared that the Soviet Union was to be dissolved and succeeded by the Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose confederation of former Soviet states.
