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Rodeo Cowboy's Association founded
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agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests".
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germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy, taking into consideration the agreement.
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Commemorative medal awarded to soldiers of the Third Reich who participated in the October 1, 1938, annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia by Germany.
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Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact.
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German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory.
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in response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.
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Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov declares that the Polish government has ceased to exist, as the U.S.S.R. exercises the “fine print” of the Hitler-Stalin Non-aggression pact—the invasion and occupation of eastern Poland.
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German warships enter major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway.
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Germany and France signed an armistice in the forest of Compiègne.
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the Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain
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Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union
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a Japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wings appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu.
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On this day, as America’s Pacific fleet lay in ruins at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt requests, and receives, a declaration of war against Japan.