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Chamberlain adopted the policy of appeasement in order to keep the peace. Allowed Hitler to continue his rise.
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Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident
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Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders, including Ernst Röhm.
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The annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany.
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Known as the night of broken glass. Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.
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Treaty of non-aggression between Germany and the soviet union promising not to attack each other.
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The invasion of Poland marked the beginning of World War II. Use blitzkrieg to rapidly defeat Poland.
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France surrenders after Germany defeated them.
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Germany bombed Great Britain in order to try and destroy their air force and prepare for invasion.
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The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. 6 million Jews exterminated.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre.
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Successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia, U.S.S.R., during World War II. The turning point of the war.
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Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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The Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying.