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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated
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After the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the AH empire declared war on Serbia
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Exactly 5 years after Franz Ferdinand'is death, the Treaty of Versailles was signed by the US, UK, France, Italy, & Japan (among others but that's too many to name) in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles in France.
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The first meeting of the newly formed League of Nations as a result of WWI
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Adolf Hitler, native Austrian, becomes leader of German Nazi party
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The government passed the Railway Settlement Act
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Herbert Hoover became president of the United States shortly before the stock market crash
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On October 29th the American stock market crashed, sending the world into a terrible economic depression (one of the causes of Hitler's rise to power)
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Donald Trump v1.0 becomes the chancellor of Germany, representing the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische deutsche arbeiterpartei)
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The New Deal was a set of economic and social system set in place by FDR in an attempt to prevent future economic depressions and to lessen or escape the current depression
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The German Gestapo is officially placed above the law of the Deutschland
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A secret trial against many high commanding officers in the Red Army, part of the Great Purge
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Germany invaded Poland, marking the start of WWII
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Germany invades Poland, the catalysing action behind WWII starting
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Codename for the operation in which Germany attempted to invade the Soviet Union unsuccessfully
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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, killing 2471 Americans and wounding 1213 Americans; act that led to America officially joining the Allied Powers in WWII and an awful Ben Affleck movie
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4 days after Pearl Harbor, the US ofically joined WWII
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The founding of Project Manhattan, in which Little Boy, Fat Man, and Thin Man were created
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The Allied Powers invade Normandy Beach in German-occupied France, the turning point of WWII
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The last day that gas chambers were in use at Auschwitz
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To end the war, America dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima on August 6th and Fat Man on Nagasaki on August 9th, killing between 129,000-246,000+
