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Hitler became leader of the Nazi party
By early 1921, Adolf Hitler was becoming highly effective at speaking in front of ever larger crowds. In February, Hitler spoke before a crowd of nearly six thousand in Munich. To publicize the meeting, he sent out two truckloads of Party supporters to drive around with swastikas, cause a big commotion, and throw out leaflets, the first time this tactic was used by the Nazis. -
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Benito Mussolini was appointed Prime Minister of Italy
He was the leader of the National Fascist Party. He was a powerful and merciless leader. In order to avoid plunging Italy into a civil war, the king of Italy declared Benito Mussolini as the Prime Minister of Italy in 1922. -
Josef Stalin was the sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
Stalin ruled by terror during most of his years as dictator. He allowed no one to oppose his decisions. Stalin executed or jailed most of those who had helped him rise to power because he feared they might threaten his rule. -
Japan seized Manchuria China
ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1931 Japan launched an attack on Manchuria. Within a few days Japanese armed forces had occupied several strategic points in South Manchuria.The United States Minister to China reported to Secretary of State Stimson, in a telegram dated September 22, his opinion that this was "an aggressive act by Japan", apparently long-planned, and carefully and systematically put into effect -
Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor
Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany. -
The Nuetrality act was passed by U.S Congress
In anticipation of another European war, and in pursuit of an isolationist foreign policy, Congress passed the Neutrality Act in August 1935, forbidding the sale of munitions by U.S. firms to any and all belligerents in any future war. -
The Italian army invaded Ethiopia in Africa
The Italian invasion of Ethiopia was initiated in the month of October 1935. It was a brief colonial war that is also remembered in history as the second Italo-Abyssinian war. -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany
HItler sent a lot of trops into a place called Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Treaty of Versalles -
Japan's Army Pillages Najing, China
Japan's Army Pillages Najing, China and causes a massacre of a quarter of a million people. -
A pact gives Sudetenland of Chechoslavakia to Germany
The pact of Munchin gave Sudetenland of Chechoslavakia to Germany. -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews
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Nazi-Soviet pact was signed by Hitler and Stalin
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Nazis invade Poland
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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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First time peace draft in the US
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Battle or Brittain
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Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
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Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
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Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
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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 - Dec. 9
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Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
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Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
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Philippines fall to Japanese
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Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
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British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
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Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
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Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
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D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
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Paris retaken by Allies Forces
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Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
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US forces return to recapture the Philippines
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FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
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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
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War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
