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Fascist Party rises to power in Italy
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Nazi Party rises to power in Germany
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Japan lacks land and resources, establish empire
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Mussolini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy
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Hitler tries to overthrow German Government
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Japan economy worsens because of Great Depression
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Japan military takes over government
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Japan army seizes Manchuria
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Hitler becomes head of German State
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America passes series of Neurtrality Acts
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Mussolini and Italy invade Ethiopia
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Hitler signs alliance with Mussolini
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German Toops invade Rhineland
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FDR moves fleet to Pearl Harbor
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Hitler annexes Austria
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Hitler demands the Sudetenland
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Hitler annexes Czechoslovakia
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Britain and France pledge support to Poland
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Hitler invades Poland
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France and Britain declare war on Germany
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Japan controls most of eastern China
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America First Committee forms to fight for American isolationism
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Germany attacks Denmark and Norway
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Germany launches blitzrieg on Belgium
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German troops enter Paris and France surrenders
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Japan allies with Germany and Italy
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Congress authorizes first peacetime draft
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Roosevelt reelected for third term
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German begins bombing England
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Lend Lease Act
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Japan signs neutrality pact with Soviet Union
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Japanese forces occupy Indochina
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Japanese fleet begins moving toware Southeast Asia; US demands that Japan withdraw from Tipartite Pact
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German raids on England end
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Pearl Harbor attacked by Japanese warplanes
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United States declares war on Japan
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Germany and Italy declare war on United States