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Mussolini founded the Facist party which is much like a dictatorship. Mussolini founded the Facist party because he glorified the importance of the state rather than individuals.
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Hitler and the Nazis unsuccessfully corporated a "Beer Hall Putsch" which was their attempt at overthrowing or seizing the German government by force. Hitler was arrested in 1924 and sentenced to a 5 year serving time in jail for his failed attempt to overthrow the government. He also wrote "Mein Kampf" during his jail time.
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Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
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Italy invaded Ethiopia because they desperately needed to restore their glory and revive their economy.
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The first nuclear fission experiment was conducted in the US on this day. This particular project was conducted at Columbia University in the basement of Pupin Hall. A main scientist of these studies is J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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Germany invades Poland. This is the offical start of WWII.
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France and Britain are trying to defend Poland from Germany. They are finally standing up to Germany for violating the Treaty of Versailles.
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Benito Mussolini declares war on France and Great Britain after withholding agreement with the Axis Powers.
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The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor finally personally bringing the US into the war.
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The US joins WWII after the bombing of Pearl Harbor due to all the American casualties.
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American armed forces destry four Japanese aircraft carries.
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The Soviet Union defeats the Germans. Germans surrended to the "Red Army" which ended one of the pivotal battles of WWII.
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US Congress passed the Smith-Connally Act which granted the president power to take over vital industries of the event of strikes.
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More than 16,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of the French coastline in Normandy, France to fight German Nazis.
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The Soviet troops entered Maidanek to revive any surving people left in the camp.
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Mussolini is killed by firing squad on behalf of the Italian partisans.
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Hitler commits suicide by swalling a cynanide capsule then following that by a shot to the head. He commited suicide in an underground bunker with his wife of two days, Eva Braun. Eva also poisoned herself, and they poisoned their
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Harry Truman was not going to let Japan escape from what they had started, so on August 6th he had an atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima, killing an estimated 80,000 people and severely wounding thousands more.
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To Japan's dismay, the Soviet Union declares war on Japan and attacks Manchuria the very next day.
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After the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on behalf of the US and after the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, attacking Manchuria, the Emperor Hirohito accepted surrender to the US.
