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- Germany respects Belgian and French borders
 - Germany admitted to League of Nations
 - Demilitarization of the Rhineland
 - France looks for allies
 
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  Outlawed wars
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  Japanese take Manchuria
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  Hitler purges government, takes control of the Army.
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  Stalin kills millions in purges
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  No measures were taken to stop Italy.
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  France doesn't resist the move.
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  Germany and Japan are anti-Soviet.
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  Soviets back government, everyone else backs Franco. Franco wins, sets up fascist state
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  Leads to disorginization.
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  Japanese Army invades China.
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  Hitler outlines plan for Eastern expansion, replaces military officials.
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  Japanese aircraft sink the U.S.S. Panay in China
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  Germany and Austria unite.
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  Britain and France agree to give Germany the Sudetenland
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  Germans take time to refine their plans.
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  Russians defeat invading Japanese forces.
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  Hitler informs generals of plans to attack Poland.
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  Two powers agree to stay out of war, allows Germany to take Poland.
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  Germany invades Norway and Denmark.
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  Began to shift British foriegn policy
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  FDR gives Destroyers for British land for bases.
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  Commits to war with Germany
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  Air battles between Germany and Britain over Britain.
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  Links Atlantic and Pacific wars
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  U.S. gives Britain armaments.
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  Gives closer airbases
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  Hitler invades Russia
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  FDR freezes Japanese trade
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  U-Boat sinks U.S. warboat, FDR declares a shoot on sight order. Two more U.S. ships are sunk.
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  Japan launches air assualt on Pearl Harbor. Japan then attacks more land in Asia.
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  U.S. now locked in war effort