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Signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
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League of Nations founded.
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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party.
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Germany admitted to League of Nations.
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Stock Market on Wall Street crashes.
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Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany
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Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States.
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Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party.
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Germany quits the League of Nations.
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Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss.
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription.
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German President Hindenburg dies.
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German military mobilizes.
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British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich.
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Nazis take Czechoslovakia.
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Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy.
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Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty.
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British fleet mobilizes; Civilian evacuations begin from London.
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Nazis invade Poland.
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Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
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United States proclaims its neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland.
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Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins.
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Soviets invade Poland.
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Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.
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Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
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Soviets attack Finland.
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Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations.
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Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.
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Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
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Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France.
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Holland surrenders to the Nazis.
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Belgium surrenders to the Nazis.
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Germans bomb Paris
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Battle of Britain begins.
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Hitler declares a blockade of the British Isles.
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Italians invade Egypt.
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Italians invade Egypt.
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United States military conscription bill passed.
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German troops enter Romania.
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Germans bomb Coventry, England.
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Romania joins the Axis Powers.