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League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I. This is one of the causes of World War 2.
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The second world war factors and actual war and after the fact.
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Adolf Hilter becomes leader of Nazi Party.
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Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy he will join Hilter soon
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Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR) he will join Allies and try to defeat the Nazis
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Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China.
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Hilter becomes Chancellor of Germany. This is real cause of World War 2.
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Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
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Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa.
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Militarist take control of Japanese Government.
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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
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Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
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Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
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Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
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Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin.
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Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany. This is real start of the war.
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Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control.
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Germany invades France and forces it to surrender.
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Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island.
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First time Peacetime Draft in US.
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Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans.
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Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter.
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Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
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Dec. 7 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces
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US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US - Dec. 9.
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Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
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Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
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June 4-7 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
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Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad and save Moscow.
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British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa.
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Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA Caused by low Mexican rights.
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July - Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
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June 6 - D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies.
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Aug. - Paris retaken by Allies Forces.
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Dec. Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces.
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Jan. – US forces return to recapture the Philippines
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April 16th - FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
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April 30, 1945 Hilter Commits sucide in his bunker after his Nazi Empire collapses.
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May 8th - V-E Day, war ends in Europe.
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Aug. - First Atomic Bombs dropped
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Aug. 14th – V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
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War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
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The start of the Cold War which endured over four decades, from 1947 until the decline and eventual collapse of East European and Soviet state communism in the late 1980s.
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UFO allegedly found on July 7th in the Roswell UFO incident
