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  Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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  Hitler makes the decision to withdraw Germany from the League of Nations
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  The Nuremberg Laws are created and enforced
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  Germany and Italy signed the Rome-Berlin Axis
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  Austria becomes part of the German Empire
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  Germany takes over Czechoslovakia
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  Hitler and Stalin sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union
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  Germany invades Poland
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  German forces defending Stalingrad surrender
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  Auschwitz is transformed into a concentration camp
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  France surrenders to Germany
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  German forces invade the Soviet Union, breaking their non-agression pact
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  Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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  Germany's allies liberate Paris
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  Auschwitz is liberated by Russia
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  Germany surrenders
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  The U.S. drops an atomic bomb in Hiroshima
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  The end of WWII