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Hitler is elected Chancellor of Germany
Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany and won by one vote -
Nazi Party declares itself Germany's only political party
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Civil War erupts in Spain
The civil war broke out as a revolt by right-wing Spanish military officers in Spanish Morocco and it then spread to mainland Spain -
Spainish Civil War ends
Nationalists entered Madrid, and the civil war came to an end -
Germans invade Poland
Hitler claimed that he invaded Poland to act as a defensive action -
Roosevelt re-elected as President
Roosevelt was re-elected for his third term as President of the United States -
Stalin calls for Scorched Earth Policy
Stalin called for this to protect his people against the German advance -
Pearl Harbor
A surprise military attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy, against the US at the naval base in Pearl Harbor -
Mass murder of Jews begin
Mass murder of Jews by gassing begin at Auschwitz -
Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow
Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow for the Moscow conference -
Battle of Stalingrad
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad
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Italian Fascists government falls
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Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government
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D-Day
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Anne Frank and family arrested by Gestapo
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Soviet Troops liberate Auschwitz
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Allies Liberate Buchenwald
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End of WWII in Europe
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Imperial Japan surrendered
