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The Allies went to the Paris Peace Conference following WWI. They created the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations to hopefully keep peace in the world. -
The Nine Power Treaty was an agreement between the US, Belgium, the British Empire, China, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal. It made Japan return the Shandong Province to China.
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King Victor Emmanuel III handed power over to Benito Mussolini.
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The Beer Hall Putch was a failed attempt by the Nazis to seize power in Munich, Bavaria.
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement to not use war to resolve any conflicts, or the country who does will be denied the benefits of the pact. It was signed by Germany, France and the US and by most other nations soon after.
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. It began a 10 year depression that affected all Western indulstrialized countries. -
The Kwantung army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria and established a puppet state called Manchukuo that lasted until the end of WWII
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The Nazi Party became the largest political party in Germany.
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Adolf Hitler becomes the Chancelor in Germany, making his way up in the German government.
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The Nazi army purged the leadership of the Nazi Parliamentary formation.
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These laws disrupted many rights for certain groups within Germany. One of them prohibited marriage and sex between Jews and other Germans.
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Known as the Italo-Ethiopian war, this event is best known for showing the weakness of the League of Nations
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Violating the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler moves troops into and militarizes the Rhineland, which was set to be a buffer between France and Germany.
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Franco rises to power and becomes the new dictator of Spain.
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Agreement between Italy and Germany linking the two facist countries.
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German troops moved into Autria, where Hitler instaled a Nazi government.
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The European powers gave the Sudetenland to Hitler after he demanded it to avoid war.
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The European powers gave the Sudetenland to Hitler after he demanded it to avoid war.
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Treaty of non-agression between Germany and the USSR.
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1.5 million troops invaded Poland all along its border with German-controlled territory.
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Air campagn where the German Air Force fought against the United Kingdom.
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The US supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Free France, the Republic of China, and other allied nations with material.
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Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union.
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Surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the US navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack cause the United States to enter WWII.
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This conference created the "final solution to the Jewish question", in whcih all Jews would be deported to Poland and exterminated.
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Air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo.
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One of the most important naval battles in WWII. The Japanese sought to eliminate the US at Midway Atoll, but they were defeated.
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Nazi Germany and its alies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the western Soviet Union.
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Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, or D-Day. The allied forces crossed the English channel to France and attacked the Germans.
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Operation Valkyrie was a German emergency plan for the government in case of a breakdown in civil order.
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German surprise attack through the densly forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxemburg.
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Burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, Adolf Hitler bit a cyanide capsule and shot himself in the head with a pistol.
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This day marked the surrender of the Nazi party and the end of WWII in Europe.
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Code name for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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Code name for the atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki.
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The day Japan surrendered, ending WWII.
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Military tribunals held by the Allied forces after WWII, most notable for the prosecution of political, military, and economic leadership of the Nazi party.
