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Key events leading up to and including WWII
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Japan begin takeover of Manchuria, which is later renamed Manchukuo
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Hindenburg is elected President in Germany defeating Nazi Party candidate Adolph Hitler and another candidate. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) is elected president of the United States.
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Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor of Germany.
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20th Amendment to the Constitution. Establishes the line of presidential succession in which the Vice-President becomes president if the President can no longer perform the duties of office.
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FDR makes his first "fireside chat" speaking to the United States population over the radio.
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Dachau, the first concentration camp, is established in Germany. By the 1945 over 1000 concentration camps will be established.
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In Germany, legislation is passed making the Nazi party the only legal political party. The Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases is also passed, providing for the serilization of unfit parents and the "euthanasia" of "the defective" and "useless eaters."
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