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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party.
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Benito Mussolini is appointed the Prime Minister of Italy
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The sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR) is Josef Stalin
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Adolf Hitler is named the Chancellor of Germany.
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Neutrality Act is passed by the United States congress
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Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of Versailles Treaty.
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Militarist takes control of Japanese Government
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The Japan's army siezes Manchuria, China.
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Japan's army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
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Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland Of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
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Nazis start rounding up Jews for labor camps
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Nazi-soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin.
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Nazis invade Poland; Britian and France declare War on Germany
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Nazi Germany invades into France and forces it to surrender.
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Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, and Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium-take control
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Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their islands
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First time peacetime draft in US
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Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin's Russian and invades- USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
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Jpaanese army invades French Indochina
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Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
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YouTube Pearl Harbor videoPearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air Forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US
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Japanese Americans in Hawaii enter into isolation camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Philippines fall to Japanese
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Nazi Germany was going to advance at Stalingrad save Moscow but was stopped by the Russians
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Battle of Midway was considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
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The British and US armies defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa.
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Riots in Los Angeles, California called Zoot Suit Riots
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Mussolini dismissed as Prime Minister and Italy surrenders from the war
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Invasion of France at Normandy by Allies.
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D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by allies
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Paris is retaken by Allies Forces
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Last offensive of German Forces
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US forces return to recapture the Philippines
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Frankiln D Roosevelt dies and vice president Harry S. Truman becomes president
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The way ends in Europe
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America dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city, Hiroshima, wiping out 90 percent of the city and immediately killing 80,000 people.
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The first every atomic bomb was dropped by the Americans
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Japan surrenders to allied forces. A photographer captures a picture of an American veteran kissing a nurse out of happiness for the war coming to an end.
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War crimes trials were being held in Nuremburg Germany, Manila, Phillipines, and Tokyo, Japan.
