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Hitler is appointed head of the Nazi party
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Benito Mussolini was appointed PM in January of 1922
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Josef Stalin is head of the USSR
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Japan takes control of Manchuria
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Hitler is elected chancellor of Germany
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US becomes a neutral force, deciding to not intervene in WWII
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Mussolini orders Italian army to invade Ethiopia
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Japan converts government system to Militarism
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Hitler sends troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
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Japan pillages Nanjing in China and kills a quarter of a million people
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Czechoslovakian's Sudetenland was given to Germany when the Munich pact was signed
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The Nazi party starts to round up the Jews and placing in labor camps
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Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler singed the Nazi-Soviet pact
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Germany invades France and forces France to Surrender
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The Nazi's invade and take control of Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium.
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Germany tries to invade Great Britain but the Royal Air Force prevents a successful invasion.
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The US enacts the first peacetime in US history
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Hitler breaks the pact with Stalin and tries to invade Russia; Russia in turn Joins England in the fighting
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FDR and Churchill issue the Atlantic Charter
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Japan invades French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia)
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The Japanese Carried out an attack on Pearl Harbor. the US declares war on Japan; And in turn Germany and Italy declare wr on the US.
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The Japanese invade the Philippines and take 140,000 prisoners from both the US and the Philippines.
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The Russians stop the Nazi's from advancing at Stalingrad and save Moscow
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The British and US forces defeat the German an Italian armies in North Africa.
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Japanese Americans are put in isolated camps
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riots broke out in Los Angeles over Latino children being beaten
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Between Japan and the US, this battle is considered to be the turning point in the war
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Prime minister Mussolini is dismissed
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the invasion of France by Normandy by allies
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Paris is retaken by allied forces
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The last German offensive push
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US forces recapture the Phillippines
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Harry Truman becomes president
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war ends in Europe
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Japan surrenders to allied forces
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the first atomic bomb used on humans was dropped on Hiroshima
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war crime trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany; Manila, Philippines; and Tokyo, Japan
