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On October 29th, 1929, millions of Americans lost their money to the stock market crash.
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Japan invades China and Manchuria in order to try to expand its empire. Some believe this to be the star of WWII.
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In 1933, Adolf Hiter takes power and tunes Germany into a military dictatorship.
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30,000 Jewish men were arrested just for being Jewish. Nazi mobs detroyed thousands of homes and stores.
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As France falls to the Nazis, Britain is the only western power free from the Nazis.
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Japan drops a bomb on Pearl Harbor killing over 2,000 people.
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160,000 allied troops land at the Normandy Coast to battle the Nazis.
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German forces had to surrender after Hitler committed suicide in his bunker. This led to the European victory.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing around 130,000 people.
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The Nuremberg Trials were held to prosecute members of the Nazi party.
