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Union with Germany had been a dream of Austrian Social Democrats since 1919.
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Brought WW1 to an end and the Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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Hitler joined the party when it was founded and became its leader in 1921.
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Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist from 1922 until his death in 1953
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September 18 1931 when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident
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January 30, 1933: President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich
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In 1933 he became the chancellor of Germany
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The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest.
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Italy invades Ethiopia in 1935 the League of Nations was faced with another crucial test.
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On August 31 1935 Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of arms, ammunition, and implements of war
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland
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In 1937 Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered 100,000 of people in the Chinese city of Nanjing.
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This move was not popular with many Germans who supported Hitler but resented the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia under the Treaty of Versailles after World War I
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Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact which the two countries agreed not to fight for the next 10 years.
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1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany, Britain and France are at war with Germany following the invasion of Poland
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was an agreement between Germany, Japan and Italy signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940
