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Germans were angry over their defeat in WW1 and the heavy reparation payments forced on them by the Allies. Adolf Hitler was an extreme nationalist, so he became the leader of a small group known as the Nazi Party.
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After WW1, economic problems in Italy had led to unrest, so Benito Mussolini promised to restore order through strong leadership. Mussolini and his followers threatened to overthrow Italy's elected govermen, so in response the king appointed Mussolini prime minister.
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Josef Stalin was sole dictator of the Soviet Union. He turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state.
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Without warning Japan attacked Manchuria, the League of Nations protested but took no action
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The greeat depresion increased Hitlers popularity and then he was named the Chancler.
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This was 1 of several laws passed that were designed to keep the U.S. at peace. It forbade the President from selling arms, making loans, or giving any other kind of assistance to any nation involved in war.
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Mussolini invaded Ethiopia and succeded because there calvery and outdated rifles were no match for Italy's modern tanks and airplanes
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Militarists pressured the civilian goverment to take control of nearby vcountries, they argued that their island nation needed more space, as well as raw materials for its booming industries.
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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
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Japans army massacred a quarter of a million people.
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Britain and France agreed to let the German leader occupy the Sudetenland.
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Hitler started rounding up Jews and sending them to Labor Camps
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Nazis attempt to annihilate all Jews in Europe
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Hitler and Stalin signed this pact for no aggression twoards each other.
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After the Nazis invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war
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Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlandsm Luxembourg and Belgium. and take control of all of them.
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Germany then invaded France and forced France to surrender.
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Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to precent the invasion of their island.
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First time that there was a peacetime draft for the U.S.
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Hitler beaks Pact with Stalin's Russia and invades. USSR now joins England in fighting the Germans.
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Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter.
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The Japanese invade French Indochina
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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy, declare war on the US.
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Philippines fell to Japanese. Then the Japanese made the prisoners march to Balonga with bad treatment.
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In the U.S. people feared the Japanese Americans so they put them in isolated camps.
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After this battle the Japanese no longer controlled the pacific
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Russians stoped the Nazis advance at Stalingrad and saved Moscow.
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British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
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Sailors would attack Mexicans that were wearing zoot suits because the extra material they were wearing could have been used to support the war.
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Italy surrenders and Mussolini was dismissed as Prime Min.
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Allies invaded France at Normandy and won.
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Allied forces went an got Paris retaken
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this was the last offensive of german forces because we weakened them so badly.
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The US returned to recapture the Phillipines and succeded.
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franklin d. roosevelt had a surprise death so vice president Truman becomes presy.
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War ends in Europe.
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atomic bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasoki.
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Japan surrenders to allied forces!!!!
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War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg Germany, Manila, Philippines and tokyo. Japan.
