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Hitler hosted the summer Olympics. It was an international multi-sport event hosted in Berlin, Germany.
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Riots broke out across Germany. The attack came to be called Kristallnacht which means the night of broken glass.
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Hitler announces a nonaggression pact with Stalin's Soviet Union. With this pact Stalin agreed to stay out of Germany's way. Hitler also agreed not to attack the Soviet Union.
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Germany claims it has been attacked by Poland. Once this claim comes out, German troops launched a massive invasion of Poland.
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Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. They became known as the Allies.
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Congress passes cash-and-carry law to ease the sale of arm to countries at war.
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Hitler sent his troops into Czechoslovakia to capture it.
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Strong pressure from Tojo forced Japan's government to resign.
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The British and Italian began a battle for North Africa. Rommel's forces and the British fought a back and fourth battle for control of North America.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, tremendous success for the Japanese.
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Roosevelt asked Congress for a declaration of war. He was furious that Japan had meant to deceive the U.S.
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Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. The nation entered WWII as one of the Allies.
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The loss of the Philippines was a low point for the United States in the Pacific war. Army Lieutenant Colonel led a group of 16 American bombers.
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The Battle of Midway had changed the entire balance of power in the Pacific. Japanese naval power, was greatly reduced. Americans began to make plans of their own in the pacific.
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White sailors stationed in L.A. fought with groups of Mexican American youths during a week of terrible violence.
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Attack began with soldiers parachuting behind German lines to try to secure key sites, the first fay of the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II.
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Germans launched a surprise offensive of their own. Hitler's forces threatened to win back vital ground from the Allies.
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On April 30th Hitler finally recognized that all hope was lost. He committed suicide in his Berlin bunker.
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The Holocaust was a genocide during WWII. Nazi Germany murdered 6 million European Jews.
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Announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945. Bringing hostilities of World War II to a close.
