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Salt march in India
Mohandas K. ghandi leads salt march to India. -
Japan on the move
Japanese military leaders and ultranationalists thought japan should have an empire equal to those of the western powers. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
In Italy, Mussolini used his new, modern military to pursue his own imperialist ambition. -
Nationalists versus Loyalists
In 1936, a conservative general named Francisco Franco led a revolt that touched off a bloody civil war -
The Spanish civil war
In 1936, Spain plunged into civil war. Although the Spanish civil war was a local struggle, it soon drew other European powers into fighting. -
Invasion of Poland
A week after the nazi soviet pact, German forces invaded Poland -
Liberation of the Jews
On April 11th the Jews were finally free from the horrors of the concentration camps -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, on the hawiaiian island of Oahu, and the United States enters the war -
Hiroshima
On august 6, 1945, an American plane dropped an atomic bomb on the mid-sized city of Hiroshima. The bomb flattened four square miles and instantly killed more than 70,000 people.