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He became Prime Minister of Italy, then in 1925 he began using the title "II Duce",
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Stock market reaches an all time low. The crash signaled the beginning of the 12 year depression
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Japan wanted to prove themselves a worldwide power and expand.
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Defeated Herbert Hoover in election, and was very popular among people and known for his efforts to get out of the great depression.
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Nazis were most powerful party in the nation. Hitler now moved to establish himself as a totalitarian dictator.
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Stated the US was isolationsit and was not getting involved with the war efforts in Europe.
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Italy had past conflicts with Etheopia, Italian efforts to establish a colony there in the late 1800s had ended up crushing military defeat at the hands of the Ethiopians.
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Hitler and his forces violated the treaty by invading the Rhineland.
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After Hitler moved troops into the Rhineland France was alarmed by this action. However, they did not want to take military action against Germany.
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Fierce political conflict caused tension in Spain between Communists, Fascists and Nationalists.
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China had land and resources which the Japanese were interested in.
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In Hitlers attempt to gain help from Austria, he used a Anschluss, or a union. Austria declined the offer.
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Russia, Germany, Britain, France, and Italy met in Munich to decide what needed to be done about Germany’s aggression in Czechoslovakia.
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"The Night of Broken Glass" where jewish stores were destroyed, jews were arrested, and killed by Nazis.
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Russia and Germany signed a ‘Non-aggression Pact’. This would eventually make them allies in WWII
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Germany said it had been attacked by Poland by dressing a German criminal in a Polish military uniform, then claiming the dead man as proof of the attack. German troops took immediate action in Poland by invading.
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Many countries had big talk in the West but none took action militarily.
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Biggest figure in British politics, a great leader.
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Evacuation of Allied soilders at Dunkirk, where the Germans had pinned them.
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Germany had defeated the weak efforts of the French, Hitler had reached and taken Paris.
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British and German air forces attacked eachother resulting in a British victory.
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Also known as the Vietnam Expedition and was during the Second Sino-Japanese war.
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Allowed US to send weapons to the British to help take down germany, without paying for them.
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When Roosevelt and Churchill Winston met secretly on a ship off the coast of Canada they made an agreement that proclaimed the shared goals of the United States and Great Britain in opposing Hitler and his allies.
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Japan surprised the US by destroying much of its Pacific Ocean Navy forces.
