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Nazi Party rises to power in Germany
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Fascist Party rises to power in Italy
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Japan, lacking land and natural resources, becomes land-hungry and looks to establish an empire
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Mussolini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy
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Hitler tries to overthrow German government, but fails and is imprisoned.
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Japans economy worsens as a result of the Great Depression
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Japans army seizes Manchuria (northern China)
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Japands military takes over government
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Nazi Party is the largest political party in Germany's Reichstag and Hitler becomes head of the German state
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America passes a series of Neutrality Acts saying that the US would withhold weapons and loans from all nations at war
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Mussolini and Italy invade Ethiopia
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Hitler signs alliance with Mussolini, forming the Axis Powers
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German troops invade Rhineland
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FDR moves AmericanPacific fleep from San Diego to Pearlk Harbor
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Hitler annexes Austria
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Hitler demands the sudetenland; Britains and France agree in the Munich Conference
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Hitler annexes Czachoslovakia
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Britain and France pledge support to Poland in the event that it is invaded by Germany
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Hitler invades Poland-Blitzkrieg
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France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
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Japan controls most of eastern China
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America First Comittee forms to fight for American isolationism
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Sitzkrieg ends-Germany attacks Denmark and Morway
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Germany launches Blitzkrieg on Belgium
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German troops enter Paris and France surrenders
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Congress authorizes the first peacetime draft in the nations history Selective Service Act
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Japand allies with Germany and Italy- Tripartite Pact
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Roosevelt is reelected to a third term
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German begins bombing England/Battler of Britain
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Lend-Lease Act
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Japan signs neutrality pact with Soviet Union
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Japanese forces occupy Indochina; U.S freezes Japan's American assets and cuts off trade
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Japanese fleet begins moving toward Southeast Asia; US demands that Japan withdraw from Tripartite Pact
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German raids on England ends
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American military base, Pearl Harbor, is attacked by Japanese warplanes
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United States declares war on Japan
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Germany and Italy declare war on the United States