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June 1919 at the Palace of Versailles in Paris at the end of World War I. Used 'war-guilt' by forcing Germany and other Central Powers to take all the blame for World War I. -
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. -
Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympic Games for propaganda purposes. The Nazis promoted an image of a new, strong, and united Germany while masking the regime's targeting of Jews and Roma as well as Germany's growing militarism. -
Germany invaded Poland to regain lost territory and ultimately rule their neighbor to the east.
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Created a defense alliance between the countries and was largely intended to deter the United States from entering the conflict. -
The morgue at crematorium I in the main camp was adapted for use as a gas chamber. Several hundred people at a time could be killed in this room. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii -
After Pearl Harbor, the FBI sent anyone of Japanese descent (most of which were Americans) to jail without any evidence that they had helped with Pearl Harbor. -
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Iwo Jima was strategically necessary for the United States' war effort. Taking the island meant more than a symbolic capture of the Japanese homeland. ... It also meant American bombers could fly over Japan with fighter escorts. -
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.