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President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany
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Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp opened
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The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood".
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Hitler planned to use President Hindenburg's death as an opportunity to seize total power in Germany by elevating himself to the position of Führer
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FDR signs the Neutrality Act, which he calls an “expression of the desire…to avoid any action which might involve the U.S. in war.”
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Hitler’s first illegal act in foreign relations since coming to power in 1933
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Germany and Italy signed a military alliance.
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Kristallnacht a massive, coordinated attack on Jews
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each signatory promised not to attack the other
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German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air
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The Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
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the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II
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Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union
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Surrender was their only hope for survival. But Hitler wouldn't hear of it: “The 6th Army will hold its positions to the last man and the last round.”
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The Allies invade Western Europe
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Paris is liberated under four years under German occupation
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a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
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a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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dies of a cerebral hemorrhage three months into his fourth term
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the U.S. Seventh Army's 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau
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Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself with a pistol
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Allies end occupation of West Germany
