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At the Paris Peace Conference, the "Big Four"; United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy. They made a peace treaty called the Treaty of Versailles. This treaty, basically punished Germany. Germany had to pay reperations, limit his army, and give away the land.
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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party
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The army invaded the Chinese Province--Manchuria--without the approval of the japanese government.
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In the late 1800's, had ended in a crushing military defeat at the hands of the Ethiopians. Italy did manage to keep several smaller colonies in East Africa. In 1935, he used a dispute about the border between Ethiopia and an Italian colony as an excuse to launch an invasion.
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Originally, Germany was required to keeps its troops out of an area near the Rhine River, called the Rhineland along the French border. It was meant to protect France against possible German Aggression. Hitler then violated the treaty by sending German Troops into the Rhineland. As an excuse, Hitler claimed that a recent French Military agreement with the Soviet Union threatened Germany.
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Spain in the mid-1930's was in the middle of a politcial conflict. It was between communism and fascists and nationalists.
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Hitler wanted to reunite ALL ethnic Germans, including the Austrians. The Anschluss was a union with Germany. However, this was another german violation of the treaty.
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British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, and French Premier, Edouard Daladier, met with Hitler. They allowed Hitler to annex Sudetenland. Czechoslovakia protested the agreement. They hoped it would keep them out of the war.
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After Anschluss, Hitler made plans to gain control of a German-speaking portion of Czechoslovakia called Sudetenland.
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Hitler threatens jews at the Reichstag speech.
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Hitler sent his troops into Czechoslovakia, capturing it without a fight.
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After that, Franco became a dictator.
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Hitler shrewdly won Stalin's agreement to stay out of Germany's way as they continued to expand. If they did that, Hitler promised not to attack the Soviet Union. He also agreed to give the SU parts of soon-to-be conquered territory.
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Within days of the Nazi-Soviet Agreement, Hitler was ready to launch his strike on Poland. To provide an excuse, Hitler had a German criminal dressed in a Polish military uniform. The man was taken to the German-Polish border and shot. The next morning, Germany claimed they had been attacked by Poland, using the dead criminal as proof. When they seized Poland, the German's used Blitzkrieg, or Lightening War. It was a front line of tanks and airplanes.
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1) Germany bombs Britain's airfield's and factories
2) Airbattles and Day and Night Raids
3) Hitler sets up Blockade of the British Isles
4) German air raid on Central London
5) The British Bomb Berlin, Germany.
6) Hitler Plans Operations Sea Lion ( the invasion of Britain)
7) Germany starts Blitzkreig on Britain
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With this we aided Britain, France, and the Soviets.
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The Nazi invasion of Soviet-Russia.
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Roosevelt and Churchill makes the Atlantic Charter. This Charter set the goals of the Allied Powers.
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It was beseiged, and over 800,000 residents die.
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“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan… No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people will through their righteous might win through to absolute victory… With confidence in our armed forces-with the unbounded determination of our people-we will gain the inevitable triumph-so help us God..."
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U.S declares war on Japan.
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Declaration of the UN signed by 26 Allied Groups
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In Auschwitz started the Mass Murder of Jews by Gas Chambers.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in London
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The Germans invaded and sieged Stalingrad. The convenience of this, for the Germans, was that this city was very industrialized. 250,000 Axis Powers Attacked, and 200,000 die. This was the last German Offensive in the East;
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The British-American invasion of North Africa
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Germans and Italians invade Vichy France
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The first big defeat of Hitler's Armies
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With Mussolini arrested, the entire fascist government falls
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The Allied Invasion of Southern France
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Victory of Europe
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Victory over Japan
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