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The Nazis set fire to the Reichstag in part of a scheme to frame the communists and take control of the German government.
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Mussolini leads Italy into Ethiopia . This was their first territorial exapnsion.
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Hitler disobeyed the Treaty of Versailles by occupying the buffer land between France and Germany and used it to build up his military.
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Hitler declares a reuniting of true German people under one state.
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Hitler met with representatives of the heads of state from France, the United Kingdom, and Italy. Hitler was given the Sudetenland if he promised not to invade anywhere else.
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The Sudetenland was occupied by Germany then Hitler broke the agreement made at the Munich Conference by invading and annexing Czechslovakia..
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Hitler and Stalin agree not to attack each other and to divide Poland.
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Hitler and his army invade Poland using blitzkrieg and this starts WWII.
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Other nations could buy weapons from the United States if they had the means to buy and transport them.
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France surrenders to Hilter after Germany goes around the Manginot line.
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At the conference the United States agreed to share with its neighbors the responsibility of protecting the Monroe Doctrine.
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German airforce bombed Britain and its civilians while the RAF battled the Germans.
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This was the first American peace time draft to train troops each year.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union.
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This forbid discrimination and alowed blacks to be drafted. It was a part of the NAACP.
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Japanese fighter planes attack the American naval base of Pearl Harbor
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Germany and Italy announced they were at war with the United States. America immediately responded by declaring war on the two Axis powers.
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The WPB directed conversion of industries from peacetime work to war needs, allocated scarce materials, established priorities in the distribution of materials and services, and prohibited nonessential production.
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FDR signed this and it put Japanese into concentration camps.
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This was a brutal forced march of American and Philipino prisoners in WWII in which 10,000 died.
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In this battle the Allies stopped the Japanese advance on Australia and it was faught completely by aircraft carriers.
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WWII battle where Allied air forces crippled Japan's navy and where the United States broke Japanese code which allowed them to attack the island.
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This was a military campaign fought on the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II. It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.
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In this battle Rommel and Montgomery faught in North Africa and it resulted in a British victory.
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This was held to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II.
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Sicily fell to the Allies following an Italian surrender.
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The Allied leaders met to plan D-Day.
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Allied troops landed along the French coast line to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy.
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This was the largest and most decisive naval engaement in the pacific.
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The allies defeated the final German offensive on the Western front.
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This supreme court up held the order to put Japanese Americans into concentration camps.
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FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met to plan for the postwar world.
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This was a six week struggle for the control of the island and it was used to launch bomb raids on Japan.
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This was the bloodiest battle in the pacific in which the Allies won.
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Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day.
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This is the site where the United States dropped the first atomic bomb.
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This was a meeting with Truman, Churchill and Stalin after Germany surrendered. Germany was divided into four zones of occupation.
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This is were the second atomic bomb was dropped.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signed the surrender on behalf of the Japanese government. General Yoshijiro Umezu then signed for the Japanese armed forces.
