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This takes place in Nazi, Germany.
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Forced King to appoint him prime minister after his fascist party "the black shirts" march on Rome to demand control of the government.
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Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union
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Japan had used an excuse a Chinese Attack on a Japanese Railway near the city of Mukden.
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On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany.
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They feared that the United States would end up getting pulled into the conflicts that were occurring in Europe, and the United States had a strong feeling of isolationism at that time.
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In 1935, the League of Nations was faced with another crucial test. Benito Mussolini, the Fascist leader of Italy, had adopted Adolf Hitler's plans to expand German territories by acquiring all territories it considered German.
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The Japanese had no jobs, no money. Secondly, the Moderateshad not prove themselves that they can provide better life for the Japanese.
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Germany ceased paying reparations altogether, though the original burden had been reduced twice in the1920s and special provision had been made for only very small payments during the Great Depresion.
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Japan's army attacks the town of Nanjing, China. They massacre a quarter of a million people. Pictured: Japanese soldiers storm into Nanjing.
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The Munich Pact is signed by Adolf Hitler and the Prime Minister. This gave the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany. Pictured: The signing of the Munich Pact.
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The Nazis begin to round of Jews for labor camps, which eventually turn into execution camps. This will be later known as the Holocaust. Pictured: Jews surrender to Nazi soldiers.
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The Nazis invade Poland; In response to this, Britain and France declared war on Germany. This was the official start of World War Two. Pictured: Invasion of Poland by Nazi soldiers.
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The Germans quickly drove into Northern France, dividing the French and British forces into two.
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Germany invades France to get more power over them and to prove to others that they are on the move.
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During July Hitler sent his Luftwaffe bombers to attack British ports. His aim was also to assess the speed and quality of response by the RAF.
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The first peacetime program of compulsory military service takes effect. Under the Selective Training and Service Act, all males between the ages of 21 to 35 are required to register for the draft.
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Hitler went to war against Poland within a few days after breaking the pact with Stalin’s Russia.
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President Roosevelt and Primeminister Churchill meet aboard the Prince of Wales on August 9-13, 1941 at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. The Prime Minister had arrived on the Prince of Wales. The President on the cruiser Augusta.
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the Japanese occupied Vichy French Indochina in order to prevent the Republic of China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina along the Sino-Vietnamese Railway.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941.
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Although the Japanese invasion force was smaller than the Allied defense, the Japanese managed to land artillery and tanks.
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In 1988, Congress attempted to apologize for the action by awarding each surviving intern $20,000. While the American concentration camps never reached the levels of Nazi death camps as far as atrocities are concerned.
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During the battle, the U.S. Navy would decisively defeat the Imperial Navy and more importantly, inflict damage to the point the Japanese fleet would not recover from during the war.
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For a time, the entire Eastern Front had teetered on the verge of collapse as division upon division of well-equipped Russians materialized seemingly out of nowhere and attacked.
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British General Mountgomery and U.S general Patten were the two generals who endes up beating Germany.
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Sailors would attack Mexicans that were wearing zoot suits because the extra material they were wearing could have been used to support the war.
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Benito Mussolini is dismissed by King Victor Emmanuel in Italy and is arrested. He later attempts to escape to Switzerland with his mistress.
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D-DayD-Day was the day on which the Allied Forces, commanded by General Dwight Eisenhower, sealed the fate of Adolf Hitler's occupation of Europe in World War 2.
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With much of France now under allied control the Americans decided that the liberation of Paris by Christmas would be politically advantageous.
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Operation Grief- Several German soldiers with good English language skills disguise themselves as American soldiers to cause confusion when the Americans would start fighting with the Germans, but they were eventually caught and executed.
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Recapture of the Philippines would allow the United States to cut Japanese access to oil from the Netherlands East Indies. It also would provide vital strategic bases for further Allied operations against Japanese forces to the north.
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On this day in 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power.
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It was on this date that great celebrations took place across Europe and North America: in London over a million people celebrated the end of the European war. Crowds massed in Trafalgar Square and up the Mall to Buckingham Palace, where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by the Prime Minister Winston Churchill, appeared on the balcony of the Palace to cheering crowds.
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There were 90,000 buildings in Hiroshima before the bomb was dropped; only 28,000 remained after the bombing. Of the city's 200 doctors before the explosion; only 20 were left alive or capable of working. There were 1,780 nurses before-only 150 remained who were able to tend to the sick and dying.
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It was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.”
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A series of trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, from November 1945 to October 1946. They were held by the International Military Tribunal to indict and try twenty-four former Nazi leaders for committing and conspiring to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II.
