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Italy was suffering a civil war (bc of socialists), and Mussolini decided by 1922 that it was a good time for fascists. His blackshirts took Rome and King Victor Emmanuel gave up the government to Mussolini.
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After which he decides to get to power the legal way, then to discard the system.
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Part of the Second Sino-Japanese war, which lasted for more than 8 years, into the beginning of European fighting.
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Hitler is offered chancellorship by von Hindenburg.
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Discriminatory laws against Jews are put into place. They took away German Jews' citizenship and outlawed intermarriage between Jews/Aryans.
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Hitler invaded and took control of the Rhineland, a formerly militarized zone, because he wanted to strengthen Germany's armed forces. Went against Versailles.
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Hitler demanded the cession of the Sudetenland in September, prompting the calling of the Munich Conference. (After Anschluss, before Munich)
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Germany forces annexation with Austria in order to unite all Germans.
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France, GB, Italy, Germany sign Munich Agreement.
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Jewish stores and businesses destroyed, synagogues burned, 100+ Jews murdered
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May: Italy and Germany solidified their alliance by signing the 10-year Pact of Steel.
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March 14-15: Hitler breaks the Munich Agreement and occupies the rest of Czechoslovakia.
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Hitler and Stalin signed the Nonaggression Pact, after Stalin became concerned that France and GB were trying to redirect Nazi attention.
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Germany used the blitzkrieg tactics to quickly overtake part of Poland. USSR got eastern Poland.
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France and Britain go to war against Germany.
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France fell under German hand. They signed the armistice the same train car as Germans had in WWI.
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The evacuation of hundreds of thousands of soldiers from a coast in France.
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Germany used its Luftwaffe to bomb civilian areas such as London, although the RAF held them off.
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The Nazis plan to take over Soviet Russia in order to create more living space for Germans.
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As part of Operation Barbarossa, 3.6 million soldiers supporting Germany attacked the USSR. By December of that year, Germany was holding Russia strong.
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An indirect attack on Leningrad where the Nazis isolated the city and starved/froze over a million Russian citizens.
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Japanese forces bomb the naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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The US discovered Japan's plans to attack and attacked first, turning the tides in the Pacific theater.
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A battle to win control of Stalingrad. It was the first great victory for Soviets.
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A battle between Montgomery and Rommel in North Africa; decisive Allied victory.
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Mussolini is overthrown and Italy surrenders to the Allied Powers.
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An offensive Allied attack on Germany in Normandy. The attack overwhelmed them and broke down German resistance.
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Germany's last blitzkrieg attack in the Belgian Ardennes. Cost many American casualties but ultimately they won.
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Germany surrendered after various small-scale battles across it. Subsequently V-E Day and end of war in Europe.
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The US released an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, killing hundreds of thousands.
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The US released another atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, similar to Hiroshima (fewer casualties).