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Joseph Stalin comes to power
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Benitto Mussolini comes to power
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Franklin Roosevelt comes to power
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Adolf Hitler comes to power
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Conquest of Ethiopia
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Spanish civil war
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Rome-Berlin Axis formed
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Annexing of Austria
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Nazi- Soviet nonaggression pact
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Polland attacked
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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, literally "Air battle for England") is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
Battle of Midway
Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy -
Hideki Tojo comes to power
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Pearl Harbor
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Battle of Stalinggrad
The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe -
D-Day
the day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Death of Roosevelt
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V-E Day
the day (May 8) marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945. -
Droppin of atomic bombs
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V-J Day
the day (August 15) in 1945 on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II, or the day (September 2) when Japan formally surrendered.