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demilitarization of Rhineland, Germany admitted into League of Nations
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outlawed offensive war
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Japs attack Manchuria, League is discredited
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The German Faust has made Mephistopheles the head of the government.
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Hitler secures support of the Army by purging the SA, army swears obedience to Hitler
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Stalin has Party Secretary Sergei Kirov murdered in Leningrad, then uses it to begin great purge
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The failure of League sanctions discredits the League, and is a triumph for Mussolini
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Germany denounces the Locarno Treaty and German troops reoccupy the Rhineland
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war symbolized for many the struggle between democracy / socialism and fascism
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2 fascist states embrace
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Germany and Japan sign the Anticomintern (Anti Communist International) Pact that states that Russia was their enemy
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The result is a profound disorganization of the Red Army
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Jaos invade China, US policy towards them remains open door
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Hitler outlines Germany's need for living space in the East.
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Japanese aircraft attack and sink the US gunboat Panay on the Yangtze River
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Germany announces Anschluss, the annexation of Austria
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France and Great Britain guarantee the new borders--surely a great comfort to the Czechs, who have still not been invited to the party: Lots of appeasement
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CHamberlain realizes that Hitler has deceived him
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public attitude in the West is that Hitler simply cannot be trusted
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The Germans refine their plans; the Allies waste their opportunity.
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Britain and France offer Greece and Rumania guarantees of independence
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The Japanese invade Soviet territory at Khalkin Gol, but soviets hold their own
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Hitler tells his generals that Poland must be attacked and destroyed as soon as possible
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The Nazi-Soviet Pact makes war in Europe unavoidable. Satalin comes out a winner with massive short term rewards
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Britain and France declare war on Germany. Stalin invades Poland Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia on Sept. 17.
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Stalin wishes to push the Finnish border farther away from Leningrad
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The German blitzkrieg begins. Fearing a British invasion of Norway, Hitler decides to strike first.
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Germany invades Holland and Belgium, which are neutral, and France. TheAllies believe they are facing the Schlieffen Plan all over again
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FDR trades 50 over-age destroyers desperately needed by the British for naval/air bases in the West Indies
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CHruhill: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands
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European and Pacific wars are now linked. There is, however, no real coordination of war effort
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Mussolini pursues his dream of Mare Nostrum
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The enormous US war making capacity begins to be mobilized
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The Lend-Lease Act to assist anyone resisting aggression is passed. Initial beneficiaries are primarily Great Britain and China.
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U.S. occupies Greenland and extends range of naval patrols. U.S. seizes all Axis shipping in U.S. ports. The same day, Hitler addresses his generals on the subject of war with Russia.
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Hitler invades Yugoslavia and Greece. His purpose is to bail out Mussolini and to secure his southern flank for the invasion of Russia
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Japan concludes a nonaggression pact with Russia, ignorant to Hitler
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Hitler addresses senior commanders and tells them they would wage a "race war without pity."
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U.S. occupies Iceland and extends North Atlantic patrols still further
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Japan invades Indochina, in part to cut China's supply line of Lend-Lease aid FDR freezes Japanese assets and embargoes oil and scrap iron sales to Japan
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German U-boat torpedoes a US destroyer: US fighting undeclared war in North Atlantic
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Within days, Japan attacks Hong Kong, the Philippines, and invades Malaya
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The German declaration of war against the U.S. is a colossal blunder: Hitler's big mistake