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Mohandas K. ghandi leads salt march to India.
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Japanese military leaders and ultranationalists thought japan should have an empire equal to those of the western powers.
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In Italy, Mussolini used his new, modern military to pursue his own imperialist ambition.
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In 1936, a conservative general named Francisco Franco led a revolt that touched off a bloody civil war
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In 1936, Spain plunged into civil war. Although the Spanish civil war was a local struggle, it soon drew other European powers into fighting.
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A week after the nazi soviet pact, German forces invaded Poland
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On April 11th the Jews were finally free from the horrors of the concentration camps
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, on the hawiaiian island of Oahu, and the United States enters the war
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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.