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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the 1937 Neutrality Act. Which bans travel on belligerent ships, forbids the arming of American merchant ships trading with belligerents, and issues an arms embargo with warring nations
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Time Inc. releases an anti-Nazi propaganda newsreel entitiled March of Time in Nazi Germany.
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Adolf Hitler declares Austria part of the Third Reich. The Third Reich was used to describe the Nazi regime in Germany from January 30, 1933, to May 8, 1945. The Nazi rose to power marked the beginning of the Third Reich. It brought an end to the Weimar Republic, a parliamentary democracy established in defeated Germany after World War I.
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During the German Kristallnacht, Night of Broken Glass, 7,500 Jewish businesses are looted, 191 synagogues are set afire, nearly 100 Jews are killed, and tens of thousands are sent to concentration camps.
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German troops invade Poland on the ground while Hitler's air force bombs Polish cities from the sky,
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Japanese fighter planes attack the American base at Pearl Harbor destroying U.S. aircraft and naval vessels, and killing 2,355 U.S. servicemen and 68 civilians.
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The first of nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive in Normandy, on the northern shores of France.
