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Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party.
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Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party
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Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.
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In 1931, the Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria in an event commonly called the Manchurian Incident.
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President Paul von Hindenburg named Adolf Hitler leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
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The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s.
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The early Meiji government viewed Japan as threatened by western imperialism.
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Hitler invades versailles Treaty when he said he would not.
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Nanking Safety Zone in the western quarter of the city to the massacre of an estimated half a million people in Shanghai, Suzhou.
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Concentration Camps were to make inmates do hard labor until they died.
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It was called Munich Agreement
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It was a non-aggession pact signed
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there was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe.
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Nazi Party. Under Hitler's rule, Germany was transformed into a fascist totalitarian state which controlled nearly all aspects of life.
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The German goal was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force.
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Germany invades France.
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The act set a cap of 900,000 men to be in training at any given time, men between the ages of 18 and 25 are required to register so that a draft can be readily resumed if needed.
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Beginning in May 1941, the Viet Minh, a communist army led by Ho Chi Minh, began a revolt against French rule known as the First Indochina War.
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the Nazi seizure of power and the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims.
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Dec. 7, 1941 at 8pm the japanese had attacked pearl harbor, the american navy was shocked and were not ready for war at all.
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Began on April 9, 1942, was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war.
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The U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion in reparations to 82,219 Japanese Americans who had been interned and their heirs.
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Under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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When the Red Army launched its devastating counteroffensive on December 5, Hitler himself realized that he would lose the war.
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"Zoot Suit Riot" redirects here. For the album by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies.
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During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943.
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Marshal Pietro Badoglio succeeded Mussolini as Prime Minister.
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D-Day is about the first day of the Invasion of Normandy.
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The Liberation of Paris (also known as the Battle for Paris) took place during World War II and lasted from August 19, 1944.
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The battle was known by different names. The Germans referred to it as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein, while the French named it the Bataille des Ardennes, The Allies called it the Ardennes Counteroffensive.
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Also known as the Liberation of Manila, fought from 3 February-3 March 1945 by American, Filipino, and Japanese forces, was part of the 1945 Philippine campaign.
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Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President ... presidency on April 12, 1945,
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The Allies were the first to establish the international criminal tribunals to prosecute high level political officials and military for war crimes and other wartime.
