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Genocide in which Hitler killed a total of 6 million Jews and an estimated of 2 million other people (Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehova witnesses, etc..)
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Fought between Republicans who were loyal to the Democratic Spanish Republic and Nationalists led by Francisco Franco. Nationalists won and Franco ruled Spain for 36 years.
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Pact of friendship and alliance between Germany and Italy.
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officially the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,[a] was a non-aggression pact signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in Moscow.
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France and Britain declared war on Germany after it attacked Poland.
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Canada declares war on Germany
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Hitler ordered widespread "mercy killing"of the sick and disabled. Code named "Aktion T 4" Children included.
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after withholding formal allegiance to either side in the battle between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain.
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As the Germans approached, the French premier Paul Reynaud roadcast an appeal for all free men to come to the aid of France. Britain also helps.
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Germany and Italy become allies against Britain and France.
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Romania allied itself with Nazi Germany—only to be invaded by its “ally” as part of Hitler’s strategy to create one huge eastern front against the Soviet Union.
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Strategic bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany. Sixteen British cities suffered. London was attacked 71 times. Thousands dead.
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Axis invasion of Allied Greece by Nazi Germany in April 1941 during the Second World War.
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The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland and other Allies.
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Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastwar in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. The invasion covered a front from the North Capeto to the Black Sea.
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The Nazis began experimenting with poison gas for the purpose of mass murder in late 1939 with the killing of mental patients ("euthanasia").
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It was a surprise strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded.
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Hitler orders all Jews in occupied Paris to wear an identifying yellow star on the left side of their coats. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jews-in-paris-are-forced-to-sew-a-yellow-star-on-their-coats
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