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A meeting where counties came together after WWI to discuss the ending of WWI. At the meeting they created the Treaty of Versailles.
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9 power treaty signed in Washington D.C.. Signers were China, United Staes, Great Britian, Japan, Italy, France,Portugal,Belgium, and the Netherlands. Agreed to leave China alone and an Open Door Policy.
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Armed squads of Blackshirts march on Rome. Left the parlimentary monarchy of King Emmanual III in confusion. King offers to run coalition government and proceeded to the capitla with 300,000 supporters in a black shirt.
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Hitler's attempt to overthrow the Weimar government. Failed because of a lack of support.
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Pact which was an agreement to outlaw war. Also called the Pact of Paris.Tried and failed to prevent a second world war. Had little effect on rising militarism in Europe.
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End of the Roaring 20s in the United States. Stock Market crashes and Great Depression in America starts. Contributer to the worldwide depression in the 1930s.
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Against the Treaty of Versailles Japan invades Manchuria, China. This is the first action towards the begining of WWII.
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The Nazi party is the majority party in Germany when Hitler is appointed chancellor of the country.
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Hitler is elected chancellor of Germany. During that same election a total of 230 govermental seats were given to Nazis. They made up over half of the Reichstag.
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Japan withdraws themselves from the league of Nations after they have already broken the Treaty of Versaillees. The League of nations chooses appeasement towards these actions.
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Rohm PurgeThe purge (murdering) of the nazi party and other heads of leadership of Germany at the time. Called "Night of the long knives" or "Operation Hummingbird."
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Hitler Defies the Treaty On this day Hitler goes to the cabinet members and head of German military that they would defy the treaty and start revamoing the military.
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The Nuremberg laws are imposed. Jews are stripped of their citizenship and looked at as subjects of the state.
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Italy invades Ethiopia in hopes of annexing it. The League of nations does vitually nothing about these agressive actions.
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German military goes over the Rhine River and enters the Rhinelnad. Hitler tells other countries he will do nothing else to break the treaty of Versailles.
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Hitler and Mussolini sign the "Pact of Steel", the axis powers are born.
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Hitler marches into Austria accompanied by German troops. Austria is a German state until the end of the second World War,
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Hitler demands Czechloslovakia and the immediate excavation of the population. The Czechs mobilizes the military the next day. War seemed very imminant at this point.
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The Munich Conference is where the Munich Pact was signed sealing fate of Czechloslovakia and giving it back to Germany.
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Francisco FrancoFranco after successfully militarily taking over all of spain becomes dictator of Spain.
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This is the day Stalin and Hitler sign a non-agression pact which they do only for their own political needs.
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German troops invade Poland. Their form of war is called Blitzkreig. This is when WWII officially begins.
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Battle right after France drops out of the war. Britian was alone against the Germans for awhile at this point. This was then the 1st all-air battle in all of history.
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Lend-Lease PactProgram devised by Roosevelt to help Great Britian in the war efforts against Germans
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Hitler sends his army into the Soviet Union thinking that they would defeat the Germans quickily and resulted in a long war on the Russian Front.
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Japanese figter planes attack a US naval base in Honolulu, Hawai. This is what ultimately gets the Americans involved in the war.
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Nazi officials meet to discuss plans of the "Final Solution." Adgenda of the meeting was simple and focused: to come up with a "Final Solution to the Jewish guestion" in Europe.
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16 Americam B-25 bombers attack the Japanese mainland. The attack was lead by Colonel James H. Doolittle. The attack did little damage to Japan but damaged Japanese prestiege.
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Battle of MidwayOne of the most desicive US wins over Japan in WWII. During 4-day sea and air battle the US takes down 4 Japenese naval ships, while the US only looses one. Prior to this the Japanese navy seemed unstoppable.
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Germany invades the Russian city of Stalingrad. Considered by the Russians as the greatest of their Great Patriotic War. One of the bloodiest battles in history. Germany thought they would overtake the Russians quickly, the Germans actually loose the battle.
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D-DayThe allied powers invade the German forces via Normandy, France. This was a form of surprise attack.
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A plot to kill Hitler failed when a bomb planted in the nazi leaders breifcase went off and did not kill him. When the attempted murderers were found out they were executed.
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One last offensive attempt by Germany to take over the war. Made desertion an issue for U.S. troops. Man was executed for desertion for the first time since the Civil War.
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Hitler Commits SuicideAdolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself.
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U.S. and Great Britian celebrate German defeat. Germans all over Europe surrender and become prisoners of war.
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B-29 Bomber Plane drops Little Boy (World's 1st A bomb) on the city of Hiroshima. About 80 thousand were killed by the initial blast.
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The United States drops another atom bomb on Japan, this time on Nagasuki finally forcing Japan to surrender the war.
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The allies mostly the U.S. celebrate victory over the Japenese forces.
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24 high-ranking Nazis go on trial in Nuremberg,Germany for etrocities that happened during WWII. On October 1, 1946, 12 Nazi leaders were sentenced to death. Seven others were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 10 years to life, and three were found to be innocent.
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Tojo Hideki, wartime leader of Japan was put on trial for war crimes he was eventually found guilty and was hanged by the Americans in 1948.
