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End of WWI
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Hitler joins the Nazi party
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Fascist Party established under Mussolini
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Establishment of the USSR
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Mussolini takes over Italy
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Death of Vladmir Lenin; control of USSR to Joseph Stalin; death of deaths of 8-13 million Russians
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Totalitarian goverment established in USSR
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US and 61 other countries sign Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Japan invades Manchuria
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Roosevelt takes office
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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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Hitler begins military buildup
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German troops invade Rhineland
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Italian troops conquer Ethiopia
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Civil War begins in Spain under Fransico Franco
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Japan invades China
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Hitler announces secret plans for Lebensraum
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Czechoslovakia falls to Hitler
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Htiler takes Austria
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Munich Agreement; Sudentenland to Germany
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Franco is successful in Spain
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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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German invasion of Denmark and Norway
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Defeat of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg by Germany
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British and French defeat at Dunkirk
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Italy enters 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; beginning of the Battle of Britain
