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Benito Mussolini was involved in three wars. The Ethiopian War, The Spanish War, and WWII.
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Stalin began to set up a "totalitarian state" (the gov. has complete control over every aspect of public/private life.)
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During Hitler's reign, 11 million people were killed.
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Italy had tried to conquer Ethiopia in the 1890's too, but they did not succeed.
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It began as a revolt by right-wing spanish military officers in spanish morocco and spreads to mainland spain.
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The three principal partners in the Axis alliance were Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.
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The Nonaggression pact meant that the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
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62 German divisions supported by 1,300 aircraft began the invasion of Poland on this day.
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Hideki Tojo was the 40th prime minister of japan.
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When it ended on June 4, about 198,000 British and 140,000 French and Belgian troops had been saved.
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Benito Mussolini Declared war on France and great britain.
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The battle recieved it's name from a speech winston churchil delivered to the british house of commons.
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After it more than half of france was occupied by the Germans.
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It was sunk by Royal Navy.
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Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii
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The initial strikes by Midway- based planes were not successful.
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Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict.
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Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, territory nominally in the hands of the Vichy French government
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The dictator of italy resigned.
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More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp.
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It took place in a russian resort town.
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He died of cerebral hemorrhage.
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His body was taken to milan and left in a suburban square.
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He did it by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.
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It was the end of WWII.
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The final “Big Three” meeting between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain takes place towards the end of World War II.
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The explosions wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people
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It was the day the news of the surrender was announced to the world.
