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Signing of treaty of Versailles
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Hitlers book "mein kampf" published
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Stock market on wall street crashes
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Germans elect Nazis making the 2nd largest poltical party in the goverment
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Franklin Roosevelt elected president of United States
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First concentration camp opened in Oranienburg outside Berlin
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German Jews stripped of rights by wuremberg race laws
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Civil War errupts in Spain
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Soviet leader Josesph Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals
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Japan invades China, initiating World War 2 in Pacific
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forced the Czechoslovak Replublic, to cede the studentenland, including the key Czechosloviak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany
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Spanish Civil War ended
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Germany invades Poland, starting world war 2
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Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Unites States proclaims its neatrality; german troops cross the Vistula River in Poland
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Soviet Union expelled from league of nations
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United States begins its first peacetime draft
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Sinking of the British ship Hood by Bismarick
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Japans bombs Pearl Harbor
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United States declares war on Japan, entering World War 2
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Mussolini resigns
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D Day
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Franklin D Roosevelt dies
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United States soilders free 32.000 survivors of the Dachau concentraion camp. It will become a memorial for victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
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Adolf Hitler comits suicide
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United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
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Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
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United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagaski, Japan.
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Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War 2
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United Nations is born
