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Peace settlement signed after WW1 burdening Germany with paying off the war debts.
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Conference between major national powers to discuss naval disarmament.
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62 nations signed a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and urging peaceful means for the settlement of international disputes.
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Japan invaded a place in northern China, changed the name, and set up the puppet state.
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The appointment of Adolf Hitler, and the first beginning steps of the Nazi revolution.
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Mussolini invaded Ethiopia resulting in Ethiopia's subjection to Italian rule.
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A series of acts passed by the US Congress and signed by FDR that tried to keep the United States out of war.
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China declares war on Japan.
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France signed an agreement by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses to Nazi Germany.
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Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.
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Hitler invaded Poland from the west, two days later France and Britain declares war on Germany.
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France surrenders to Germany.
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Series of aerial combats that took place between Britain and Germany where Britain won.
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FDR delivered the slogan "Arsenal of Democracy" in a radio broadcast, promising to help the UK fight Nazi Germany by giving them supplies.
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An act passed that stated that the U.S. government could lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."
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German army launched an invasion of the Soviet Union, holding the largest land theater of war in history.
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A joint declaration issued by the US and Great Britain that set out a vision for the postwar world.
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A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy leading to the entry of the US into the war.
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A movement organized by A. Philip Randolph aimed to pressure the government into providing fair working opportunities for African Americans.
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A migration of laborers into the US.
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An executive order that led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans, German Americans, and Italian Americans in U.S concentration camps.
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Both sides suffered major losses, US NAvy checked a major Japanese offensive for the first time.
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A massive naval battle between the Japanese and America ending with the victory of the US and considered a major turning point in the Pacific war.
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First time the U.S defeats the Japanese on land and also the battle that commenced "island hopping"
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Presper Eckert, Jr and their colleagues at Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania led to build an all-electronic computer.
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The final ground attacks by the Allied forces against the Italian and German forces.
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The Allies launched Operation Husky, an amphibious assault on the southern shores of the island.
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Known as the invasion of Normandy, where more than 156,000 troops stormed 50 miles of Normandy's beaches in northern France.
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Imperial Japanese Navy suffered its greatest loss of ships and considered the defeat of the Japanese Navy.
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Germany's last major offensive.
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Meeting of the Allied representatives discussing the post-war world and the partitioning of Germany.
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Marines secured Iwo Jima and completely annihilated the enemy it was also during this battle that the Marines raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away (age 63) due to a cerebral hemorrhage.
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Germany surrenders and ends WW2.
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The bloodiest battle of the Pacific war, over 49,000 casualties and 12,520 killed.
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The big three- Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill/Clement Attlee, and Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of WW2.
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A nuclear bomb named Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 and another nuclear bomb named Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki.
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Japan formally surrenders to the Allies aboard the USS Missouri finally bringing an end to the war.