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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
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Japan’s army pillages Nanking (Spelled Nanjing now), China; massacre of a quarter of a million people.
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Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
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Nazis begin rounding up Jewish people for labor camps
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Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
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Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium. They take control
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Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
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July 14 - 22 Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
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First time Peacetime Draft in US
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Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades USSR. USSR joins England in fighting the Germans
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The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration between Britain and the U.S. creating a broad state of their war aims.
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Japan's invasion cut off supply routes from there to China. France couldn't fight Japan. Japan occupied the Indochina region and cut off China’s transportation routes in Indochina.
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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US
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Japan captured about 70,000 soldiers. Those 70,000 had to walk 65 miles to prison camps. Thousands died from starvation, disease, and the violence
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Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
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June 4-7. Battle of Midway was a turning point in the war
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Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
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British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
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Young (primarily) Mexican and Latino people in Los Angeles, CA walked around in big suits that used a lot of material because they didn't like the war and it made a lot of people mad, resulting in police violence and brutality.
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Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Minister
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D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
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German defenders were worn out and tired. American units and Sherman tanks retook the French capital after a few battles on the 20th of December.
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Battle of the bulge was the last offensive attack from the Germans
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US forces recapture the Philippines.
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FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes president.
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V-E Day, War ends in Europe
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The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those two bombs killed at least 129,000
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V-J Day, Japan surrenders to allied forces
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War Crimes Trials held in Nuremberg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
