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Goal was to get their resources and use them. It works and they start to expand.
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The US is not going to take sides, it will remain neutral in the war.
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After decades of fighting, Italy invades Ethiopia. They ask the League Of Nations for help but recieve nothing.
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by sending German troops into the Rhineland. Nobody did anything about it, which made Hitler grow stronger
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Where anyone can come to the US and get weapons but they had to pay cash.
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FDR gave this speech saying that its going to "spread like a disease"
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Thousands of Jewish businesses and synagogues were damaged.
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The invasion of Poland by German forces marks the official start of WWII
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You no longer have to pay right away, we'll lend the weapons to the Allies and they can pay back later
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Hitler ignores the Nonaggression Act and invades the Soviet Union.
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President Roosevelt and Churchill meet and talk about what they're goals were in the war.
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The Japanesse bomb the US Pearl Harbor.
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American bombers attacked Tokyo, didn't do major damage though, just enough to celebrate.
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The Americans broke the Japanesse code and found out what they were going to do so the Americans made up a counter-attack and fough back. Americans won,
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Americans were on the offensive side. Japanesse don't surrender because they "fight to the end!"It's long and lasts 6 months.
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Lasted until January of 1943. Is when the Axis Powers got trapped anl 200,000 of them died. The other 50,000 surrendered.
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The beginning of the invasion of North Africa, first time Americans see combat.
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The Allies invade Sicily Italy and take over
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Americans arrive in France to fight against the German forces
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President FDR goes for fourth term and wins.
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Last German offensive on the western front.
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Leaders Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill meet to plan for postwar peace
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Island south of Tokyo that the US attacked, and won.
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Victory in Europe, a day lots of people celebrated. Also the ending of the Holocaust
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Americans bomb Hiroshima, Japan and kill 80,000 people
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Japan surrenders; signing the "Instruments of Surrender"
