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Fascist party rises to power
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Nazi party rises to power
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Japan lacking land and natural resources, becomes land-hungry and looks to establish an empire
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Mussolini is appointed prime minister of Italy
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Hitler tries to overthrow German government, but fails and is imprisoned
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Japan's econmy worsens as a result of the Great Derpression
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Japan's military takes over government
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Japan's army seizes Manchuria
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Nazi party is the largest political party in Germany Reichstag & Hitler becomes head of German State
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America passes a series of Neutrality Act saying that the US would withhold weapons & loans from nations at war
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Mussolini & Italy invade Ethiopia
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Hitler signs alliance with Mussolini, forming the Axis Powers
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German troops invade Rhineland
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FDR moves American Pacific Fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor
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Hitler annexes Autria
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Hitler demands the Sudetenland; Britian and France agree in the Munich Conference
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Hitler annexes Czecholsovokia
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britian and France pledge support to Poland if it is invaded by Germany
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German troops enter Paris and France surrenders
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Hitler ivades Poland - Blitzkrieg
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France and Britian declare war on Germany
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Japan controls most of China
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American First Comittee forms to fight for American isotionism
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America First Committee forms to fight for American isolationism
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Congress authorizes the first peacetime draft in the nation's history
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Sitzenkreig ends
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Germany luanches blitzkrieg on Belgium
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Japan allies with Germany & Italy
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Roosevelt is reelected to a hird term
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Germany begins bombing England
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Lend lease Act
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Japan signs neutrality
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Japanese forces accupy Indochina; U.S. freezes Japan's American assets & cuts off trade
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Japanese fleet begins moving toward Southeast Asia; US demands that Japan withdraw from Tripartite
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German raids on England stop
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American military base, Pearl Harbor, is attacked by Japanses warplanes
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United States declares war on Japan
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Germany & Itlay declare war on the Untied States