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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of national Socialist Party
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Germany applied to join the organization, showing they reformed
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32nd President
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outlawed the formation of any other parties
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription
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northern and western border regions, the Sudetenland
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Beginning of WWII
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responded to Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland by declaring war
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sixteen days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union did so from the east
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German warships enter major Norwegian ports deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, German forces occupy Copenhagen, among other Danish cities.
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the Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain
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Japan attacks US at Pearl Harbor Hawaii
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Franklin Roosevelt addressed Congress and asked for a Declaration of War with Japan
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bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict
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The American servicemen were stationed from Scotland to Cornwall (and all parts between)
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The USAAF began building up its air forces in Europe using B-17Es soon after entering the war
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the start of the campaign which ended World War II in Europe
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Nazi Germany's surrender of it's armed forces
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the division of Allied-occupied Germany into four occupation zones according to the Yalta Conference.
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Surrenders to the Allies, endind WWII
