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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party.
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Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy.
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Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
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Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
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Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
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Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
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Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
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Militarists take control of Japanese Government
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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
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Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
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Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
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Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
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Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin, to from an alliance.
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Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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Germany invades France and forces it to surrender.
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Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island.
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First Peacetime Draft in US
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Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control.
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Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans.
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Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter, which set goals and limets of the War.
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Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan.
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Germany and Italy declare war on the US
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Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad, save Moscow.
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Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
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Turning point of war in the Pacific.
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British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa.
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Zoot Suit Riots in, Los Angeles, CA, due to young latino's who didn't support the war and sailors who thought they should.
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Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Minister
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D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
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Paris retaken by Allies Forces.
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Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
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US forces return to recapture the Philippines
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FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President.
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V-E Day, war ends in Europe.
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The first Atomic Bombs were dropped in the two Japanese cites of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs were dropped by the US, as a way to end the war with Japan.
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V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan. For World War ll.
