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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi party
Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945. Founded in 1919 as the German Workers' Party, the group promoted German pride and anti-Semitism, and expressed dissatisfaction with the terms of the -
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
It took Mussolini much longer then Hitler to create a Dictatorship. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and his power was just that, he was considered the dictator of Nazi Germany.
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Joseph Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
Joseph Stalin had big plans, including changing the USSR into a more industrial economy. Thats just what he did when he become dictator of the soviet union in 1929. He changed the New Economic Policy into the Command Econmy, launhing a period of industrialization. This resulted in the rapid transformation of the USSR from a agrarian society into a industrial power. -
Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
when Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army of the Epire of Japn, the Japanese esablished a puppet state called Manchukuo. They occupied this land until the end of World War 2. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
The people of Germany looked up to Hitler after their big loss in the Great War and the Versailles Treaty. Germany elected Adolf Hitler as Chancellor, with the hopes that he would give their state power over all others. They couldn't be more wrong..... -
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts. -
Italian army invades Ethiopia in Africa
Ethiopia(Abyssinia), which Italy had unsuccessfully tried to conquer in the 1890s, was in 1934 one of the few independent states in a European-dominated Africa. A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia on October 3, 1935. -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
In March 1936, Hitler took what for him was a huge gamble - he ordered that his troops should openly re-enter the Rhineland thus breaking the terms of Versailles once again. He did order his generals that the military should retreat out of the Rhineland if the French showed the slightest hint of making a military stand against him. This did not occur. Over 32,000 soldiers and armed policemen crossed into the Rhineland -
militarist take control of Japanese Government
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Japan's army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people
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Munich Pact signed and giving the Sudetenland of the Czechoslovakia to Germany
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Nazi-soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
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Nazi invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Nazi invade Denmark,Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembug, 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 the US
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Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin's Russia and invades- USSR which now joins England in fighting 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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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air Forces, US declares war on Japan, GErmany and Italy declare war on US
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Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
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Phillippines fall to Japanese- Bataan Death March
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Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Mascow
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Battle of Midway, turning point of the war in the Pacific
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Zoot Suit Riots- Los Angeles, CA
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Italy surrenders, Mussolini dissmissed as Prime Minister
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British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
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D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
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Paris retaken by Aliied Forces
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Battle of the Bulge- last offensive of German Forces
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US forces return to recapture the Philippines
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FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
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V-E Day, war ends in Europe
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First Atomic Bombs dropped
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V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied forces
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War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines, and Tokyo Japan
