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Founded Fascist Party in 1921
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Attempted to overthrow the German government in 1923 and failed, and he was sent to jail.
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Given to Hitler for appeasement
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Japan invades Manchuria
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Japan - Military Leaders ( 1931 invaded Manchuria )
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Italy invaded Ethiopia
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Rape of Nanjing - 200,000 - 300,000 Chinese massacred!
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Gernany attacks Poland. Germany wins!
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Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Japan formed a military alliance with Germany and Italy. Japan took control of French Indochina with permission of the French Vichy government.
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Germany takes over Denmark and Norway
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Gernamy attacks France - Attacked through the Ardennes Forest in Northern France
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Dunkirk - 340,000 Allied troops escape, Netherlands and Belgium fall to Germany. By the end of June, France surrenders to Germany
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General Hideki Tojo took control of Japan
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U.s Pacific fleet - 20 warships, 200 aircraft destroyed.
2,400 Americans killed
USS Arizona
" A date which will live in infamy"
Destoryed isolationism -
Days after loss in Philippines, 16 American bombers attacked Tokyo
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Stalingrad - Major industrialized center in the Volga River (Last German offensive in the East)
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D-Day 15,000 Allied troops carried across the English Channel. They were led by Omar Bradley. 10,000 Allied casualties - successful!
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The slaughter, mass murder, and deliberate annihilation (genocide) of 6 million European jews. - Hitler
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Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin met to plan for postwar peace.
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Volcanic island 750 miles south of Tokyo
Cave Network -- Bloody Fighting
Flag raising on top of Mount Surbachi -
FDR dies suddenly and vice president, Harry Truman takes over
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Bloodiest Battle
Island 350 miles from Japan
Largest landing force in Pacific history
Japanese did not challenge landing, retreated to South 5 days later Japan attacked -
Hitler commits suicide
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marked the formal end of the war in Europe
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50 countries met in San Fransisco
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demanded Japanese surrender or "prompt and utter destruction"
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Enola Gay - Paul Tibbets
80,000 Killed -
over 40,000 killed
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Emperor Hirohito surrendered over the radio
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Surrender on USS Missouri
