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Concentration Camps
Jews were sent to concentration camps because of there race, they would put them to work or kill them, they also died because of starvation and diseases. -
Enabling Act
The Enabling Act was a 1933 amendment to the Weimar Constitution that gave the German Cabinet the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag -
Book Burning
Student groups at universities across Germany carried out a series of book burnings of works that the students and leading Nazi party members associated with an “un-German spirit.” -
Italy invades Ethopia
Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, trying to expand territories. -
Japan invades China
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Hitler invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and rule Poland.The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war, what would become the "blitzkrieg" strategy. -
Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese launched a surprise torpedo attack on the US Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Three thousand seven hundreds lives were lost and mnay other wounded. The japanese sinked 18 ships and destroyed 170 aircrafts. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
A second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.