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Japan invades Manchuria.
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A german dictator named Adolf Hitler got thousands of followers to go to a week-long rally in Nuremberg.
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Six months after annexing Sudetenland, Hitler had conquered the western half of Czechoslovakia, dividing the rest of the country among the allies.
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Hitler invades Poland
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Germany attacks Denmark and Norway. This was the end of the "Phony War".
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Congress authorizes the first peacetime draft.
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President FDR gives a speech of his worries and concerns to the American people via radio. He stated that the Axis nations, especially Germany, posed a direct threat to the security of the United States.
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"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression.... The second s freedom of every person to worship God in his own way.... The third is freedom from want [need].... The fourth is freedom from fear."
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Germany, along with other European Axis members and Finland, invaded the Soviet Union.
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The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
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Military authorities reluctantly give African Americans the oppertunity to fight.
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Heavy casualties force the army to accept African Americans into some white combat units.
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Unable to accept defeat, and defiant to being taken in by his enemies, Adolf Hitler commits suicide. He had earlier commanded one of his officers to take his and his wife's bodies behind the buildings and have them burned beyond recognition.
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Often reffered to as V-E day, this is the day when we accepted Germany's surrender.
