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Roosevelt Takes Office
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Period: to
World War II
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Start of World War II
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Hitler joins the Nazi Party
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Fascist Party established under Mussolini in Italy
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Establishment of the USSR
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Mussolini takes over Italy
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Death of Vladimir Lenin; control of USSR to Joseph Stalin; deaths of 8-13 million Russian
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US and 61 other countries sign Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, establishing the Third Reich
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US Begins passing Neutrality Acts
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Civil War begins in Spain under Fransisco Franco
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German troops invade Rhineland
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Italian troops conquer Ethiopia
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Japan invades China
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Hitler Begins military buildup
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Hitler announces secret plans for LEBENSRAUM
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Chechoslovakia falls to Hitler
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HItler takes Austria
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Munich Agreement; Sudetenland to Gremany
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France is successful in Spain
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Totalitarian government established in USSR
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Russian army into Finland (Finns surrender in three months)
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Non-aggresssion pact; germany and Russia; divide Poland
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German invasion of Poland; blitzkrieg
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British and French defeat at Dunkirk
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Plans for an invasion of Great Britain; beginning of the Battle of Britain
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German invasion of Denmark and Norway
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Defeat of the Netherlands, Belgium and Lexumbourg by Germany
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Italy enters the war on the side of Germany and invades France
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France surrenders to Germany
