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Adolf Hitler, an extreme nationalist, is elected leader of the National Socailist, or Nazi Party. Nazism is a variation of fascism.
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Josef Stalin, the dominant communist power during and after WWII, becomes the sole ruler and dictator of the Soviet Russia.
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The Japan Army with a strength of 198,880 men, invades Manchuria, China as result in a dispute between Chinese bandits and japanese railroad workers.
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Led by Benito Mussolini, the Italian Army invades Ethiopia to expand its power further in the world.
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The act passed by the U.S that stated terms of isolationism from WWII.
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Troops are sent into the Rhineland in violation of the Versailles Treaty to improve its militarian power.
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Japan basically becomes a militarian state dedicating all of it's power towards improving it's military.
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The Japanese Army massacres 250,000 people.
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Many Jews were killed even before they got to labor camps in mass shootings by German soldiers. 6,000,000 ended up being killed over the course of the Holocaust.
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Which would later be broken.
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Hitler and the Nazis take over Poland and Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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Royal air force defeats defeats German airforce to prevent invasion of their island,
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Men between the ages of 21 and 35 must register for the miltary draft.
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USSR joins England in fighting the Germans.
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Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
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Laid down the terms of peace that the Allies sent to accomplish.
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii is attacked by the Japanese Air Force resulting in a dominant defeat.
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese Americans were thought to have spies among them and were sent to intern camps with terrible conditions.
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An 80 mile march that forcibly done by 76,000 American and Filipino soldiers. It consisted of a wide range of physical abuse and murder.
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A turning point in the Pacific when the American Navy defeated the Japanese during an assault on the Midway Atoll.
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Riots between Mexican Americans and military servicemen. The Mexican Americans famously wore Zoot Suits.
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US invades German owned France on the beach of Normandy.
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Last offensive by the German forces. A battle through the dense forests of Belgium in the Ardennes mountain region.
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President Harry S. Truman takes his place in office.
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Germany and the axis forces are defeated in Europe.
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Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing 200,000 total. Resulted in an unconditional surrender of Japan.
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Japan surrenders to Allied forces.
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