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end of WWI
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Totalitarian government established in ussr
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Hitler joins the Nazi party
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Mussolini takes over Italy
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Fascist Party established under Mussolini in Italy
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establishment of the USSR
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Death of Vladmir Lenin; control of USSR to Joseph Stalin; death of 8- 13 million Russians
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Hitler announces secret plans for lebensraum
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Us and 61 other countries sign Kellog-Briand Pact
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US begins passing Neutrality Acts
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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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Roosevelt takes office
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Hitler begins military buildup
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Italian troops conquer Ethiopia
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German troops invade Rhineland
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Civil War begins in Spain under Francisco Franco
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Hitler takes Austria
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Munich Agreement; Sudetenland to Germany
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Japan invades China
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non-aggression pact; Germany and Russia; divide Poland
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German invasion of Poland; blitzkrieg
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Russian army into Finland (Finns surrender in three months)
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Czechoslovakia fallsto Hitler
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German invasion of Denmark and Norway
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british and french defeat at dunkirk
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italy enters the war on the sude of germany and invades france
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italy enters the war on the side of germany and invades france
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france surrenders to germany
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plans for an invasion of great britain; begining of the battle of britain
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defeat of the netherlands, belgium and luxemburg by germany
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Franco is successful in Spain