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Joseph Stalin Died/Left office on October 16th 1952, but I had to put the timespan date so it would fit on the timeline
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Facist Italy invades Ethiopia and is able to annex them with the help of modern war technologies (Poison Gas, Mechine Guns, and Heavy Artillery). There was no official surrender but on June 1st 1936 Italy merged Ethiopia with Eritrea and Italian Somalia
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Germany Broke the Treaty of Versailles by remilitarizing the Rhineland
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Spain Breaks into civil war and divides into many political groups looking for power. The Facist Party led by Francisco Franco, gained support from the axis powers. After winning the civil war Francisco Franco became dictator of Spain.
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Nazi Germany decided to "test out their new planes" by bombing the small market town of Guernica. After the bombing the planes then flew low down to machine-gun any survivors. They killed over 1,000 innocent civilians.
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Franco died/left office on November 20th 1975, but in order for him to fit on the timeline i had to set his timespan to August 14th 1945
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Hitler tried to unify Austria and Germany but the chancellor of Austria refused, so hitler sent in his army to "preserve peace"
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces Czechoslovak to give the Sudetenland to Germany. This was done in attempt of appeasment towards nazi Germany.
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After losing the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia was weak and powerless, so Germany then just gobbled up the rest of Czechoslovakia.
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement and secretly divide up the rest of europe between each other.
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Germany Invades Poland, Starting WWII in Europe.
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During this time he was Minister of Defence, he took many other titles but this is during the war
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Launched by General Charles de Gaulle, the Free French was an armed resistant group, aimed to Free France from German control.
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During this time he was leader of the Free French, he took many othe rtitles before and after this, but this is during the war.
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France surrenders to Germany after being Invaded by Germany from the west and Italy from the south.
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To keep the Axis powers from dividing France up equally, Germany created a collaberation state called Vichy, It was said to be free, even though it was clearly run by the Germans.
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Air War fought between two allied forces the UK and Canada, and Germany and Italy
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Tripartite (Axis) pact was signed by Japan, Italy, and Germany.
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Nazi Germany invaded the USSR, but their army was stopped in Leningrand (present day St.Petersburg) where a winter with temperatures of -40°f froze Hitlers hopes for conquering all of the Soviet Union, but Germany did take a big portian of Russia
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor killing about 2,400 people and destroying many battleships.
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The Nazi's made work camps and death camps for all who were not of the Arian race. There they killed between 11-17 million people, 6 million of these people were Jewish.
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This battle started on June 4th.This was a decisive victory for the Allies because after Japan lost to the American's in this battle they were unable to launch any more offensive operations.
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Major turning point of WWII occured in the Stalingrad,Russia, when the Soviet Union counter-attacked Nazi Germany and forced them out of Russia and regained all of their lost territory.
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The allies defeated the axis powers in Egypt, then the Axis powers retreated into libya. this was a decisive victory for the allies in the North African Campaign, because it kept the Axis powers from gaining control of the suez canal and Middle Eastern oil feilds.
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The Allies Invaded Normandy, France to take back France and take down the Nazi's. This invasion was the larges amphibious invasion in history.
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The Allies Advanced toward Germany but are slowed down during the Battle of the Bulge, a German offensive aimed a re- conquering Belgium, but by January 1945 the Germans began retreating
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Fought between the US and Japan, the US invaded Japanese island Iwo Jima. It was heavily armed and ready for the invasion but the Americans fought hard and even though the US won their death toll was higher than Japan's.
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Victory in Europe Day, When the Allies accepted Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender.
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and August 9th the U.S.A. dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US chose to do this because if they invaded, the Japanese soldiers would rather fight to the death than surrender.
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Victory over Japan Day.The day Japan announced it had surrenderd to the U.S.A.