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Period: to
Cause and Effects of WWII
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Russian Bolsheviks rebel in October Revolution
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Weimar Republic is established in Germany
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Mussolini comes to power in Italy
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Kellog-Briand peace pact is sighned by almost every country in the world
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Stalin becomes dictator of Soviet Union
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U.S. stock market crashes
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Great Depression begins
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Hirohito's Japan seizes Manchuria
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Hitler is named chancellor of Germany
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Ethipia is invaded by Italian forces
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Spanish civil war begins
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Germany and Soviet Union sign nonagression pact
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Germany invades Poland; World War II begins
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Britain evacuates forces from Dunkirk
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France surrenders; The Battle of Britain begins
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Germany invades Soviet Union
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; U.S. declares war on Japan
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Bataan Death March begins
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Allies turn back Japanese fleet in Battle of the Coral Sea; Allies surrender in Philippines
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Allies defeat Japan in Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Allies defeat Japan in Battle of Midway
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Hitler orders attack on Stalingrad
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Japanese suffer defeat at Battles of guadalcanal
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad
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Allies invade Europe on D-Day
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Battle of The Bulge begins
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Allies capture Iwo Jima
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Germany surrenders
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Okinawa falls to Allies
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Allies drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders
