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Italy, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, invades ethiopia.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the 1937 neutrality act, which bans travel on belligerent ships, forbids the arming of American merchant ships , trading with belligerents, and issues an arms embargo with warring nations.
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President D. Roosevelt forbids U.S. ships from carrying arms to china or japan.
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in response to Japanese action in China, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers a speech in which he calls for peace-loving nations to act together to " quarantine " agressors to protect the world from the " disease " of war.
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The united states grants recognition to the new Austrain government.
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Hitler, in return for the Sudetenland, promises to leave the rest of Czechoslovakia alone.
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The night of broken glass was a progom against jews throughout nazi germany on 9-10 november 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and German civilizations.
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The invasion of poland, also known as the September Campaign,
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The committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies is founded.
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The Battle of Britian was a combat of the second World War, when the (RAF) defended the UK against the German Air Force from the end of june 1940.
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British forces in East Africa, acting on information obtained by breaking the italians' coded messages, invade italian - occupied Eritrea-a a solid step towards victory in africa.
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The Holocaust was a genocide in which Hitler's Nazi Garmany and its collaborators killed about 6 million jews.
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Operation Barbarossa was the code name Nazi Germany's ww2 invasion of the Soviet Union , which was launched on sunday, june 22, 1941.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, was a suprise military strike by the imperial Japenese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory , on the morning of December 7, 1941.
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the pacific theater of ww2.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern front of ww2 in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the soviet union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.
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The Normandy Landings were the landing operations on tuesday, june 6, 1944 of the allied invasion of normandy in operation overload during ww2.
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Hitler killed himself by gunshot on april 30, 1945 in his fuhrerunker in Berlin.
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VE day was the public holiday celebrated on may 8, 1945 to mark the final acceptance by the allies of ww2 in Europe.
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The battle of iwo jima was a major battle in which the united states marine corps landed on and eventually captured the island of iwo jima from the japanese imperial army during ww2.
