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1919- This agreement signed after WWI placed an inordinate amount of financial burden upon Germany. It was developed out of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
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1921- This conference between major national powers was organized for disarmament, and led to uneven proportions amongst the leading Naval powers of Britain, the US, and Japan.
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1928- 62 nations signed this agreement.
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1931- One of the axis powers set up a puppet state.
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1933- The appointment of a leader, the beginning of a culture revolution in Germany.
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1935-1939 - A series of foreign policy decisions signed into law by FDR.
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1935 - In this year one of the emerging Axis powers invaded a sovereign state in Africa.
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1936- this event in the US was like a referendum on the New Deal. What followed was the Roosevelt Recession in 1937.
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1937- One of the Axis powers declares war on a major country in Asia.
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1938- Conference in South Germany in which delegates of France, Britain, Germany, and Italy permitted territorial expansion.
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1938- This event marked the advancement of violence and oppression against people in specific religious, and social categories in Germany.
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1939- This event meant the outbreak of total war in Europe.
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1940- This event led to the surrender of a major western power.
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1940- Britain is victorious in the air. The London air raids begin.
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1940- FDR addressed the nation.
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1941 - Signed by FDR, for the benefit of Britain.
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1941- This German offensive marked the opening of the Eastern front in Europe.
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1941-1942- A. Philip Randolph commenced these Civil Rights protests.
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1941- A joint declaration of the US and Britain.
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1941- This surprise attack marked official US entry into the war.
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1942 - Edict limiting the freedom of citizens on the basis of ethnicity.
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1942 - Edict limiting the freedom of citizens on the basis of ethnicity.
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1942- This month marked the end of what major Japanese Army offensive?
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1942- This massive naval battle was a definitive turning point in the Pacific war.
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1942- A migration of laborers into the US.
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1943- This battle commenced US “island hopping”.
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1943- Operation Vulcan marked the closing of this major geographical theater of combat.
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1943- A team of engineers at the University of Pennsylvania began working to build a computing device.
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1943- The invasion of this Mediterranean island marked the opening of a new major offensive in Europe.
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1944- The invasion of Normandy.
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1944 - The definitive defeat of the Japanese Navy.
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1944- Germany’s last major offensive.
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1945- Here, the Allied representatives discussed the post war world, and the partitioning of Germany.
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1945- “Uncommon Valor was a common virtue” - Adm. Chester Nimitz
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1945- The free world mourned the loss of a major leader.
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1945 - Germany surrendered.
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1945- The bloodiest battle of the Pacific War.
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1945- A major Allied meeting in Germany.
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1945- Two events to force Japan to capitulate.
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1945- Japan surrendered.