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Max Ernst was an artist of surrealism. His paintings showed shapes that almost look like animals or tools or people. They are weird and confusing to me.
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Hitler is elected leader of Germany by the Nazi political party. This was a bad thing because he hated Jews, created concentration camps, started WWII by invading Poland.
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On the ‘Night of Broken Glass,’ Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria – 30,000 Jews are arrested
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Hitler orders that Jews must follow curfews; Jews must turn in radios to the police; Jews must wear yellow stars of David
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WWII started when Germany invaded Poland.
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The Battle of Britain was where HItler was trying to invade Britain. Britain won.
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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor to keep america out of the war but it did not work.
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In May 1942 the first 29 Navajo Code Talkers were recruited in the Marines.
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D-Day was when the allies invaded Normandy.
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World War II ended and America, Britain and France won.
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Roosevelt died and Truman became president.
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Roosevelt died and Truman becomes President of USA
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V-E day was victory in Europe.
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an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
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an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
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victory over Japan
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Brown vs. the Board of Education was a court case during the Civil Rights Movement. Thurgood Marshall argued in court to allow black kids going to the same school as white kids.
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In 1963, during the march on Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke his famous speech “I Have a Dream” to over 250,000 people who attended.