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The Great Depression increased Hitlers popularity. He became named the chancllor and the leader of German parliament.
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Mussolini tuned Italy into the worlds first Fascist state.
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He turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state.
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The League of Nations protested against this, but took no action.
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Hitlers speach with english subtitles
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Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” from the United States to foreign nations at war and requiring arms manufacturers in the United States to apply for an export license.
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Ethiopia's leader, Haile Selassie, appealed to the League of Nations for help. However, they responded weakly and Ethiopia fell into thw invaders.
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Two years after this event, his troops invaded Austria. Just as predicted the European democracies did nothing to stop him such as before.
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Like Nazis in Germany, Japanese militarists preached racism. They thought they were superior to other Asians as well as non-asians.
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For six weeks the Japanese army pillaged the city in China. In the assult, more than a quarter of a millon civillians an prisoners of war were massacred.
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Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany. After this Hitler promised he would seek no further territory.
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Jews are liable for forced labor. They can be picked up off the streets for work at manual labor jobs such as digging ditches, shoveling snow, and cleaning streets.
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They signed a non-agression agreement. Together, they secretly decided to divide up Poland.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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The Nazis take control of all these countries.
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The British and French had responded to the original attack by putting into operation a plan to advance to the River Dyle, in Belgium.
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Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
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This required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft boards.
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USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
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The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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France's rapid fall to the Germans meant weakened colonial rule in Indochina. Japan saw an opportunity to extend her own empire all the way to Malaysia and into India, and that is what she set out to do.
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Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Despite the lack of any concrete evidence, Japanese Americans were suspected of remaining loyal to their ancestral land. ANTI-JAPANESE PARANOIA increased because of a large Japanese presence on the West Coast.
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Prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack. After Midway, the two opposing fleets were essentially equals, and the United States soon took the offensive.
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For a time, the entire Eastern Front had teetered on the verge of collapse as division upon division of well-equipped Russians materialized seemingly out of nowhere and attacked.
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The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had colonial interests in Africa dating from the late 19th century.
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The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots in 1943 during World War II that broke out in Los Angeles, California, between Anglo American sailors and Marines stationed in the city and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored.
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With Mussolini deposed from power and the earlier collapse of the fascist government in July, Gen. Pietro Badoglio, the man who had assumed power in Mussolini's stead by request of King Victor Emanuel, began negotiating with Gen. Eisenhower for weeks.
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On 6 June 1944 the Western Allies landed in northern France, opening the long-awaited "Second Front" against Adolf Hitler's Germany.
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Just as the Allies (UK, USA, Canada, Free French Forces) had secured the area around Normandy, Free French Forces insisted on advancing into Paris
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Last offensive of German Forces
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The ensuing battles of Leyte Island proved among the bloodiest of the war in the Pacific and signaled the beginning of the end for the Japanese.
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Harry S. Truman becomes President
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War ends in Europe
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Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
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Atomic bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki
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Held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
