World War 2 Timeline

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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