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Hitler kept violating the Versailles Treaty again and again many times. He sent Germany military forces into Rhineland.
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Germany and Russia signed the Nazi-Soviet pact.
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World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.
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The Lend Lease Act provided the U.S. military aid to foreign nations during Wolrd War II. Stalin, Churchill, and Winston were the big three.
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The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland.
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In response to American attempts to limit Japanese expansion and support her enemies, Japan decided to attack the US base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii with hopes of keeping the Americans out of the war. Instead this event caused the US to declare war on Japan and for Germany to declare war on the US to support their ally.
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Crucial and tough naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
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Allied troops were brought in to the beaches of Normandy to fight Nazi soldiers.
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On this date, the commander of the German troops in Berlin finally surrendered the entire city to the Soviet Army.
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American B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb over the Japanese city, Hiroshima. They island-hopped.
