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Japan signed an international treaty agreeing to respect China’s borders. The two countries had a conflict for a long time.
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Japan signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing the war.
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"Black Tuesday" is the day that the stock market crashed. This officially set off the Great Depression.
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Spain becomes a republic. At first, they were going to have a monarchy, but citizens had problems with it.
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Japanese army seizes Manchuria, despite objections from Japanese parliament. This is commonly known as the Manchurian Incident.
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Japan withdraws from the League of Nations. They withdrew because they were blamed for events in Manchuria by the assembly.
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Congress passed 3 Neutrality Acts. These laws banned loans & sale of arms to nations at war.
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Nuremberg laws are passed, depriving Jews of their rights to German citizenship. Also, forbade marriages between Jews and non-Jews.
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Mussolini ordered a massive invasion of Ethiopia. The spears and swords of the Ethiopians were no match for the Italian guns, tanks, airplanes, and poison gas.
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German troops moved into Rhineland even though they aren’t allowed to. Hitler ordered the army to do this when he knew he wasn’t allowed to do it.
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Mussolini & Hitler reached an agreement that became known as the Rome-Berlin Axis. This agreement informally linked the two fascist countries together.
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Hitler announces to his advisors his plans to absorb Austria & Czechoslovakia into the 3rd Reich. Hitler knew they could not stop a Nazi invasion.
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Hitler sent his army into Austria & annexed it. Hitler knew that Austria could not stop his army.
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Munich Conference is held. Czechs weren’t invited.
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Fascist Germany & Communist Russia leaders (Hitler & Stalin) signed a nonaggression pact. They agreed not to attack each other, either independently or with another country(s).
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Hitler’s surprise attack on Poland. German aircraft & artillery began bombing Poland’s capital, Warsaw.
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France and Great Britain declare war on Germany. They declared war on Germany in response to Germany's invasion of Poland.
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Auschwitz is liberated. The Soviet Army entered and liberated more than 7,000+ ill and dying prisoners.
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Little Boy, a gun-type weapon, was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was the first nuclear weapon used in a war.
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A bomb called Fat Man was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was the second nuclear weapon used in a war.