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Adolf Hilter Becomes the Leader of the Nazi Party
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Benito Mussolini became Prime Minister of Italy
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Joseph Stalin is the sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
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Japan's Army Seizes Manchuria, China
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Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
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Neutrality Acts Passed by Congress
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Italian Army invades Ethiopia
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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany
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Militarist take control of Japanese Government
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Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people
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Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
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1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
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1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
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Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
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Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
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Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
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First Peacetime Draft in the US
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Hitler Breaks Pact with Stalin's Russia and invades USSR
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Churchill and FDR Issue the Atlantic Charter
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Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet., Laos, Cambodia)
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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii Attacked by Japanese Naval and Air Forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US
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Philippines Fall to Japanese- Bataan Death March
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Japanese Americans Interned in Isolated Camps
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Battle of Midway, Turning point of the war in the Pacific
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Russians Stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
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US and Brittish Forces defeat German and Italian Armies in North Africa
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Zoot Suit Riots - Los Angeles, California
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Italy Surrenders, Mussolini Dismissed as Prime Minister
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D-Day Invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
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Paris Retaken by Allied Forces
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Battle of the Bulge - Last Offensive by German Soldiers
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US Forces Return to Recapture the Philippines
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FDR Dies, Harry S. Truman Becomes President of the US
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V-E Day, War Ends in Europe
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First Atomic Bombs Dropped
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V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
