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Mussolini Takes Over Italy
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Benito Mussolini marches into Rome with a Fascist army. He says if the leaders don't surrender he will kill them. -
The Beer-Hall Putsch
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Kellogg- Briand Pact
More InfoThe Kellogg- Briand Pact was the 1st pact that outlawed war to settle arguments. It did not stand very long, because only 15 years later, WWII started. -
US Stock Market Crash
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The US stock market crashed in 1929 after millions of investors traded in all their money on Black Tuesday. The next day America dropped into the longest lasting depression in the Western Hemisphere. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
More InfoFearing that Japan was getting overcrowded, and that they would run out of space and food for its people, Japan invades Manchuria to create enough space for its people. -
Hitler becomes Germany's Chancellor
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Although the president was originally intimated by Hitler and didn;t make him chancellor, However, Hitler's rapid growth of popularity in 1932 and 1933 almost guaranteed Hitler's seat as chancellor. -
Japan Withdraws from the League of Nations
More InfoAfter Japan's invasion of Manchuria, the League of Nation's said Japan would be thrown out if they didn't give China their land back. So Japan left instead of being kicked out. -
First Anti-Semitic Law is passed in Germany
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Nazi's reach a political majority in Germany
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The night of the long knives (Rohm Purge)
More InfoAdolf Hitler decides to massacre hundreds of his own Nazis because he considered them to be a potential threat in the future. -
Hitler openly announces to his cabinet he will defy the Treaty of Versailles
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Creation of the Nuremberg Laws
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Italy Invades Ethiopia
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Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
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Rape of Nanking
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After hundreds of fueding the Japanese finally snapped, and killed half the population of Nanking, China. Japan was power-hungry after their successful invasion of Manchuria and decided to go on a conquest of China. -
Germany Annexes Austria
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Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
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Munich Conference
More InfoAfter Hitler threatens to take the sudetenland The League of Nations meets with Hitler in Munich, and ultimately gives it to him. -
Kristallnacht
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Nazis storm Jewish stores, synogagues, and houses and break almost everything in them. -
Einstein’s letter to FDR, “The Manhattan Project”
More InfoNoted physicist Albert Einstein writes a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the possible construction and use of nuclear weapons in Europe. -
Nazi invasion of Poland
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Evacuation of Dunkirk
More InfoThis is Hitler's first big mistake. He allows British troops to be evacuted from Dunkirk so that they would just fight against him another day. -
France Surrenders
After Germany invades Paris, France signs an armistice and France remains in Axis occupation until it was liberated in 1944. -
Battle of Britain
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Lend Lease Act
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Discovery of Majdanek
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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Creation of The United Nations
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The Wannsee Conference and "The Final Solution"
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Bataan Death March
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Doolittle Raid
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Battle Of Stalingrad
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Russian troops successfully stop German troops from taking over Russia. -
Island Hopping (Buna-Gona Campaign)
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Operation Overlord and D-Day
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Operation Valkyrie
More InfoOperation Valkyrie was an assassination attempt on Hitler, set up by a german soldier. ¨Valkyrie¨ was actually Hitler's escape plan. -
Battle of the Bulge
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After the Allies have liberated France, Germany makes one final attempt to defend Germany. -
Hitler Suicide
More InfoAdolf Hitler commits suicide in an underground bunker because the allies were knocking on his door. -
V-E Day
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This is the day that Germany announced an unconditional surrender, which means the Allies won. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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V-J Day
More InfoThis is the day that Japan surrendered the war after America bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Nuremburg Trials
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Japanese War Crime Trials
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The Beginning of The Cold War
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The Cold War was a conflict between the US and USSR after WWII, where no country issued a declaration of war.
