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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of nazi party
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Benito Mussolini is appontied Prime Minister of Italy.
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Josef Stalin sole dictator of UUSR
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Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
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Hitler is named chancellor of Germany
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Nuetrality Acts passed by US congress
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Mnich pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Chzechoslovakia to Germany.
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nazis round up Jews and take them to 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.
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Nazis invade Denmark, Morway, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium and take control.
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Royal Air force defeats German Air force to prevent invasion of their island
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Germany invades france and forces it to surrender.
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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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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
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Philippines fall to Japanese
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Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
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Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
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June 4-7 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
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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
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Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
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1944 June 6 - D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
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1944 Aug. - Paris retaken by Allies Forces
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1944 Dec. Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
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1945 Jan. – US forces return to recapture the Philippines
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1945 April 16th - FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
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1945 May 8th - V-E Day, war ends in Europe
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1945 Aug. - First Atomic Bombs dropped
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1945 Aug. 14th – V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
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1946 War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
