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Period: to
WWII
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Hitler violates treaty of versalles by introducing military conscription
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WWII begins officially
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The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
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German troops occupy rhineland
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Mussoliniś Italian forces take ethiopia
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Soviet leader stalin begins a purge on red army
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Hitler reveales plans during Hossbach conference
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German military mobilizes
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Brittish prime minister apeases Hitler at munchi
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German troops occupy sudetenland
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kristalnact-The night of broken glass
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Hitler threatens jews during reischage speech
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Nazi takes czechsolvokia
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Nazi sign ''pact of steel'' with italy
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Nazi ans soviet sign pact
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Brittan, France, Austrailia, and New Zeland declare war on germany
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Brittish air force attacks german army
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Canada declares war on Germany
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rationing begins to britan
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Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.
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Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister
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Holland surrenders to the Nazis.
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Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins.
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Belgium surrenders to the Nazis.
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Germans bomb Paris
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Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France.
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Tobruk in North Africa falls to the British and Australians.
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British forces advance into Italian Somaliland in East Africa.
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British forces arrive in Greece.
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Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq.
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Heavy German bombing of London
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United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.
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Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets.
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First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
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Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.
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German air raids begin against cathedral cities in Britain.
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German summer offensive begins in the Crimea.
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in London.
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First Battle of El Alamein.
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British General Bernard Montgomery takes command of Eighth Army in North Africa.
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Rommel driven back by Montgomery in the Battle of Alam Halfa.
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Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos.
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Germans begin a withdrawal from the Caucasus.
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
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Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa.
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Axis forces in Tunisia begin a withdrawal toward Enfidaville as American and British forces link.
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Allies take Tunisia.
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'Pointblank' directive to improve Allied bombing strategy issued.
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Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk.
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American daylight air raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt in Germany; Allies reach Messina, Sicily.
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Soviet troops advance into Poland.
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Soviet troops begin an offensive on the Belorussian front; First major daylight bombing raid on Berlin by the Allies.
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Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea.
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Germans withdraw to the Adolf Hitler Line.
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British and Canadian troops capture Caen, France.
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Polish Home Army uprising against Nazis in Warsaw begins; U.S. troops reach Avranches.
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U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies link up after a month long separation during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta.
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Last German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary.
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President Roosevelt dies. Harry Truman becomes President.
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German troops in Italy surrender.
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Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government.
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