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On October 29, 1929 the Stock Market crashes. Stocke prices plummet and at least 30 billion dollars were lost by mid-November. This was one of the biggest underlying causes of WWII. ECONOMIC
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Due to the stock market crash and lose of money, the US employment rate rose ridicoulously. By March, more than 3.2 million people were unemployed in the United States. SOCIAL
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The US Congress established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. This corp. was to lend $2,000,000,000 to banks, insurance companies, and etc in need of reconstruction. ECONOMIC
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On November 8th, 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) defeated President Herbet Hoover (Republican) in a landslide to win presidency. POLITICAL
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. POLITICAL
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President FDR signs the 1937 Neutrality Act. This banned travelbelligerent ships, also forbid the arming of American merchant ships trading with belligerents. POLITICAL/SOCIAL
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On December 13, 1937 Japanese troops captured Nanjig for 6 weeks. Those six weeks involved carnage, slaughter, widespread of rape, and indiscriminate killings. MILITARY
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The Munich Pact is a settlement permitting Nazi Germany annexation of portions of Czhechoslovakia. New territonial designation "Sutenland" was coined. POLITICAL
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During the German Kristallnacht, t,500 Jewish businesses are destroyed, 191 synagogues are set afire, nearly 100 Jews are killed, and tens of thousands are sent to concentration camps. MILITARY
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Time magazine prints its 1938 Man of the Year edition, choosing Adolf Hitler for the title. He doesn't show the Nazi leader face on the cover of the publication. SOCIAL
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On the 1 of September Germany attacked Poland. Two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany, starting WWII. MILITARY
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The battle of Britan really lasted from the summer of 1940 to the fall of 1940. The R.A.F put up a fight and Hitler called off invasion of Britain. MILITARY
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Four million troops poured over the Russian border. Within a month over 2.5 million Russians had been killed. MILITARY
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The Tehran Confernce was from November 28 to December 1 1943. Here Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winstin Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met to coordinate strategies against Germany and Japan. POLITICAL
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General Dwight Eisenhower led US troops to invade Normandy, France. They were aware of being attacked but did not know what location it would occur at. MILITARY
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APril 12, 1945, around 1 PM he complained about terrible pain in the back of his head and collapse unconsious. Franklin D Roosevelt passed away after serving four terms in office. SOCIAL
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Under his headquaters Hitler comitted suicide by taking a Cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Along him, Hitler's wife, Eva Braun also comitted suicide. SOCIAL
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On August 6, 1945, the first nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. First nuclear weapon, and it was 10,000 times hotter than the sun's surface killing millions of people. TECHNOLOGY
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American planes drop a nuclear bomb on not only Hiroshima, but also Nagasaki. These two bombs were the first nuclear weapons used as an attack and opened new thraets even today. MILITARY
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A formal surrender ceremony is conducted in Tokyo Bay on the US battleship Missouri. WWII officially ends. MILITARY