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Facist Party rises to power in Italy
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Nazi Party rises to power in Germany
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Japan lacking land and natural resources, becomes land hungary and looks to establish an empire
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Mussaloni is appointed Prime Minister of Italy
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Hitler tries to overthrow Germangovernment,but fails and is imprisoned
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Japans economy worsens as a result of the great depression
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America First Commitee forms to fight for american isolationism
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Japans army seizes Manchuria
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Japans military takes over government
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Nazi Party is largest political party in Germany's Reichstag & Hitler becomes head of the German state
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Mussolini & Italy invade Ethiopia
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Hitler signs an alliance with Mussolini,forming the Axis Powers
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German troops invade the Rhineland
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Hitler annexes Austria
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FDR moves american fleet from san diego to Pearl Harbor
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Hitler demands the sudetenland; Britian and France agree in the Munich Confrence
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Hitler annexes Czechoslovakia
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America passes a series of neutrality acts to withhold weapons during war
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Britain and France pledge support to Poland in the event that it is invaded by Germany
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Japan controls most of eastern china
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sitzkrieg ends-Germany attackes Denmark & Norway
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Germany launches blitzkrieg on belgium
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German troops enter Paris & France surenders
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Hitler invades Poland-Blitzkrieg
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Japan allies with Germany & Italy- Tripartite Act
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Congress authorizes the first peacetime draft in the nations history- selective service Act
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France & Great Britain declare war on Germany
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Roosevelt is reelcted to a third term
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Germany begins bombing England/ Battle of Britain
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Lend lease act
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Japenese forces occupy Indochina; Us freezes Japans American Trade
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Japan signs neutrality pact with Soviet Union
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Jaqpenese fleet begins moving toward southeast Asia; us demands Japan withdraw from tripartite act
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German raids on England end
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Pearl Harbor attacked by Japenese warplanes
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Us declares war on Japan
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Germany & Italy declare war on US
