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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party. This leads up to Hitler becoming the Fuhrer of Germany.
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Benito Mussolini, the leader of the Italian fascist party, is appointed prime minister of Italy.
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Joseph Stalin becomes the sole dictator of the Soviet Union.
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The Holocaust was a genocide in which about six million European Jews(among other types of people) were killed by Hitler's Nazi Germany and the Nazi's allies.
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Japan's army attacks the town of Nanjing, China. They massacre a quarter of a million people.
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Hitler invades Austria because he viewed Austria as Germany's territory.
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The Nazis invade Poland, triggering Britain and France to declare war on Germany. This is the official start of world war 2
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Germany bombs London with their new fighting tactic: Blitzkrieg.
They were major raids that dropped more then 100 tons of high explosives on 16 British cities over a period of 267 days. -
The Japanese soldiers storm the town of Manchuria and take control of it.
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Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in the morning against the United States naval base in Hawaii, triggering the United States to join the Allied powers.
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This was a major battle of World War 2 in which the Nazis were fighting the Soviet Union for the city of Stalingrad. Nazis surrenders because they were dying at a rapid pace during the winter, they did not prepare for the harsh winter
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The allied forces sailed onto the beaches of Normandy and push back the German forces. This is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
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The conference was convened to create post-war peace that represented a collective security order and a plan to give self-determination to the liberated nations in post-Nazi Europe.
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US marines invaded the island of Iwo Jima. They wanted the island of Iwo Jima for its two air bases which were great for the US to have
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The date when the World War 2 Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender by Germany.
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The two bombs, Little Boy and Fat Boy, are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders, ending the war in the pacific and
