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Communist revolution in in Russia creates totalitarian state
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Mussolini creates the fascist party
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Joseph Stalin takes control of the communist party after Lenin's death
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Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
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Nazi's loot and kill Jews in Germany
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Initiation of the war, Hitler invades Poland causing France and Britain to declare war
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Congress creates the draft and uses $16 billion on war needs.
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U.S + British war intentions
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Japanese kamikaze pilots bomb U.S Pearl Harbor, causes U.S to declare war.
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Speech delivered by President Roosevelt to congress the day after Pearl Harbor attacks
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U.S military defeats Japanese fleet in the pacific for a massive victory.
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Marked a turning point for the Allies, stopped Germany's advance into the Soviet Union
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Italy surrendered
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Allied invasion of Normandy,soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, France
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Allied powers conference to discuss soviet control of eastern Europe
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Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders
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Truman orders nuclear bomb dropping on Hiroshima, Japan
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Second nuclear bomb dropping on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
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Japan surrenders
