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Adolf Hitler becomes Leader of the Nazi Party
Nazis won by 33% of the vote by promising a way out of the depression -
Benito Mussolini appointed to Prime Minister of Italy
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Josef Stalin becomes Sole Dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
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Japan's Army Seizes Manchuria, China
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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Neutrality acts passed in the US
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Italian Army invades Ethiopia
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Militarist take ocntrol of Japanese Government
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Hitler sends troops to Rhinland, Germany in violation of the Versallies Treaty
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Japan's Army pillages through Nanjing, China; massacre of a quarter of a million people
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Munich Pact signed giving Sudetenland of Czechosolvakia to Germany
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Nazis start rounidng up Jewish People for labor camps
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Nazi-Soviet pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
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Nazis invade Poland; Britian and France declare war on Poland
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First time Peacetime Draft in US
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Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg,and Belguim.
Take control -
Battle of Britain
Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island -
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
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Hitler breaks pact with Stalin's Russia and invades USSR
which now joins England in fighting the Germans -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
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Japanese invade French Indochina (Laos. Cambodia)
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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces,US declares war on Japan,Germany and Italy declare war in the US
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Battle of Midway
Turning Point in the war, in the Pacific -
Philippenes fall to the Japanese
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Japanese Americans interned in isolated amps
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Russians stop Nazi advance in Strangligrad, Save Moscow
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Italy Surrenders
Mussolini dissmissed as prime minister -
British and US defeat German and Italian armies in Northern Africa
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Zoot Suit Roots- Los Angeles, California
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D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
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Paris is retaken by Allied Forces
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Battle of the Bulge
Last offensive of German Forces -
U.S forces return to recapture the Phillipenes
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FDR dies, Harry S Truman becomes president
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V-E day, war ends in Europe
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V-J day. Japan surrenders to allied forces
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First Atomic Bombs dropped
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War Crimes Trial held in Nuremberg, Germany; Manila,Philippines, and Tokyo Japan
