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Xinhai Revolution in China
The overthrow of China's ruling Qing Dynasty. -
Emperor Puyi steps down as last Qing Emperor of China.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President of the United States for the first time.
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
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Chinese Communists engage in the Long March
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Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by ordering military conscription
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Mussolini Invades Ethiopia
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Bombing of Guernica, Spain
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Stalin begins his purge of dissenters.
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Japan Invades Nanking, China
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Germany announces ‘Anschluss’ with Austria.
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Britain, France, and Russia appease Germany at the Munich Conference.
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Kristallnacht begins.
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Czechoslovakia taken by Nazi’s as appeasement from Britain and France.
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Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy
If there was a war there would be mutual assistance between the countries. -
Nazis and Soviets sign non-aggression Pact.
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Britain declares war on Germany.
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United States proclaims neutrality.
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Germany Invades Poland
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
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Battle of Britain begins.
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German air raid on Central London
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Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan
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Germany attacks the Soviet Union.
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Nazi’s first experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
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United States and Britain declare war on Japan
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Germany declares war on the United States.
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Japan Invades Manchuria