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Chiang Kai shek is named chairman of National Military Council of the National Government of the Republic of China
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Italy and the vatican sign lateran Treaty
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The United Kigdom, Japan, and the United states sign the london naval treaty regulating submarine warfare and shipbuilding.
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Carl Friedrich Goerdeler is appointed Reich Price Commissioner in Germany to enforce the deflationary policies of the Bruning government
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Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichsprasident
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.
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Nazi Germany passes the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring.
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Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany, becoming head of state as well as Chancellor
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Adolf Hitler announces German rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
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Italian forces invade Addis Ababa.
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Italy withdraws from the League of Nations
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Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
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Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel
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Germany Invades France, Belguim, low countries
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The Japanese imperial army lauched a surpirse attack on the United States Navy ships. killig thousand of United States service men.
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The first American land in Europe they landed in Northern Europe.
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In Russia, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army
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The deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps begins
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The Holocaust: The Red Army liberates the Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps
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Adolf Hitler commites sucide in fear of being captured.
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Trials against war criminals begin in Tokyo; the accused include Hideki Tojo, Shigenori Togo and Hiroshi Oshima.
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In Paris, France, peace treaties are signed between the World War II Allies and Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Finland. Italy cedes most of Istria to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
