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1921, Jan. 30 Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Nazi person -
1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Mussolini became prime minister of Italy -
1929 Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union
Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union -
1931 Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
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1933, March 21 - Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
Hitler becomes the leader of the Germany -
1935 Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
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1935 Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
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1936 Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles TreatyB
Hitler did not like Versailles -
1936 Militarist take control of Japanese Government
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1937 Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people
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1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
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1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
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1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
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1940 May 10 Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
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1940 July 10 Battle of Britain begins – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
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1940 July 14 - 22 Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
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1940 Sept 16 - First time Peacetime Draft in US
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1941 Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
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1941 Japanese invade French Indochina
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1941 Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
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1941, Dec. 7 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US - Dec. 9
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1942 Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
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1942 Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
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1942 Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
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1942, June 4-7 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
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1942 Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
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1943 Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
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1943 British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
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1943 July - Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
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1944 June 6 - D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
Invasion of France
