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Stalin ruled Russia as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952.
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Benito Mussolini rules the I talian government from 1922 when he is elected to 1943 when he was overthrown and then shot in 1945.
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Hirohito was the emperor of Japan from the time that his father died in 1926 to when he died in 1989.
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Adolf Hitler ruled as Chancellor-President of Germany from 1932 when he was named chancellor to April 30, 1945 when he committed suicide.
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Nazis arrest and kill millions of minorities, including Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and Jahovah's Witnesses. These minorities were sent to concentration and extermination camps.
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On October 3, 1935, Italy, led by Benito Mussolini, attacked Ethiopia with the intentions to annex Ethiopia into Italy.
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On March 7, 1936, German military forces enter the Rhineland bordering France, in violation of the Treat of Versailles.
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The Spanish Nationalists and the Spanish Republicans war over the rule of Spain, leading to a Nationalist win.
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Francisco Franco was elected dictator in October 1936 and reigned until his death on November 20, 1975.
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Neville Chamberlain ruled as prime minister of England from 1937, when he replaced Stanley Baldwin, to May 1940, when he resigned.
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During the Spanish Civil War, a small market town, Guernica, was bombed from the air by the Germans and Italians.
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Austria is incorporated into Germany after many years of pressure from both Germans and Austrians.
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Britain and France made an agreement with Germany, in which the Germans receive permission to annex the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia in appeasement.
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Germany takes over the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia by means of the appeasement by Britain and France.
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Hitler and Stalin agree to remain neutral if the other country were attacked by a third party.
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Germany, the Soviet Union, and Slovakia invade Poland.
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France falls and is invaded to and by Germany.
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Winston Churchill took over the reign of Prime Minister of England from Neville Chamberland in May of 1940 and his rule ended when he was not reelected in 1945.
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France is divided, forming Vichy, France, which collaberated with the Axis Powers.
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Germany wages an air raid on Britain to show superiority of Germany's air force over Britain's Royal Air Force.
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Italy, Germany, and Japan form allies under the Tripartite Pact. Germany signs treaties with Japan and Italy, to form the 'Axis Powers.'
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France creates new divisions.
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German forces invade the Soviet Union, a pivotal piont to decide alliances.
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Japan attacks America's naval base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in order to prevent America's US Pacific Fleet from interfering.
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The US Navy attacks the Japanese Navy and naval base in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The Germans fight the Soviets over Stalingrad in southwestern Russia.
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The Germans attack El Alamein in Northern Africa.
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The Allies fight Nazi Germans on the coast of France,
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The Germans attacked the Allies along the French-German border.
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American soldiers attack and seize the Japanese island of Iwo Jima.
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There is victory found in that the Nazis officailly laid down their arms.
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The US decided to used atomic weapons. Two were dropped on this day, one in Hiroshima, Japan, and the other in Nagasaki, Japan. These are the only times atomic weapons have ever been used in war.
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Victory is celebrated when Japan officially lays done their arms.
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Winston Churchill ruled as Prime Minister again from 1951 to 1955.
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Charles de Gaulle was made president of the French Republic soon after it was founded in 1958 and his rule continued until he resigned in 1969.
