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Benito Mussolini marches on Rome. Mussolini wants to expand his power and tries to become the next super power.
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Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs in the season. This record holds for the next 34 years.
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This is the date of the date of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. It was the killing of seven mob associates of the North Side Irish gang.
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The U.S. stock market crashed on this date. This date is the start of the Great Depression.
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The U.S., Britain, Japan, France, and Italy sign a treaty for naval disarment.
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Pluto is discovered by scientists during this year. Pluto becomes the 9th planet in our solar system.
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U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the Bonus Army off all government property. The army of 17,000 veterans and their families were forced away by cavalry and tanks.
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This is the year the President Roosevelt was inagurated. Roosevelt implemented his New Deal to get the country back on its feet.
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On this day Hitler was appointed the German chancellor and given dictatorial powers.
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Hitler becomes absolute dictator of Germany under the name of fuhrer. This is after the death of the German President Paul Von HIndenberg.
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The Anti-Comintern Pact was between Germany and Japan. The pact was to work together to defend communism.
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The Japanese invade China during this year. They take over most of the coastal area.
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Amelia Earhart dissappears on this date while trying to go around the globe. She dissappeared around Howland Island in the Central Pacific.
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The Japanese army invades China and starts raping and pillaging the town of Nanjing. The Japanese officials say this never happened but there are pictures of it.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack by Japan. Japan wanted to be the dominating naval power.
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This is the time period where Germany first invades Poland.Hitler was alloud to do this through Britain and France appeasement.
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Winstron Churchill becomes the British prime minister. Winston Churchill becomes one of the biggest power players on the diplomatic side of war.
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The Wannsee Conference was held to decide the 'final solution to the Jewish Question." This was the conference that created the Holocaust.
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Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill planned final defeat of Germany. This conference was when the terms of Germany's surrender was established.
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Hitler commits suicide in a bunker under Berlin. Hitler swallows a Cyanide capsule then shoots himself with a pistol ultimately ending his life.
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