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Hideki Tojo, Chief of staff of Japans Kwantung Army, launched the invasion into China.
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Hitler met secretly with his top military advisers to say that to grow and rosper, Germany needed the land of its neighbors.
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German troops march into Austria unopposed. This caused many countries to watch Germany to see what they were going to do next.
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Nazi Storm troopers attack Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany and Austria.
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German troops took over Cezechoslovakia.
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Hitler invades the Soviet Union
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Germany and the Soviet Union signed a pact never to attack each other.
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German Luftwaffe roar over Poland, raining bombs on military bases, airfields, railroads, and cities. AT the same time, German tanks raced across the Polish countryside.
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Roosevelt persuades congress to pass a "Cash-and-carry" provision that allowed warring nations to buy U.S. arms as long as they paid cash and transported them in their own ships.
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Hitler launches surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway.
