Causes of WWII COLE FRIET

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    Nazi Party rises to power in Germany

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    Fascist Party rises to power in Italy

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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

  • Hitler tries to overthrow German government, but fails and is imprisoned.

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    Japans economy worsens as a result of the Great Depression

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    Japans army seizes Manchuria (northern China)

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    Japands military takes over government

  • Nazi Party is the largest political party in Germany's Reichstag and Hitler becomes head of the German state

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    America passes a series of Neutrality Acts saying that the US would withhold weapons and loans from all nations at war

  • Mussolini and Italy invade Ethiopia

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    Hitler signs alliance with Mussolini, forming the Axis Powers

  • German troops invade Rhineland

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    FDR moves AmericanPacific fleep from San Diego to Pearlk Harbor

  • Hitler annexes Austria

  • Hitler demands the sudetenland; Britains and France agree in the Munich Conference

  • Hitler annexes Czachoslovakia

  • Britain and France pledge support to Poland in the event that it is invaded by Germany

  • Hitler invades Poland-Blitzkrieg

  • France and Great Britain declare war on Germany

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    Japan controls most of eastern China

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    America First Comittee forms to fight for American isolationism

  • Sitzkrieg ends-Germany attacks Denmark and Morway

  • Germany launches Blitzkrieg on Belgium

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    German troops enter Paris and France surrenders

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    Congress authorizes the first peacetime draft in the nations history Selective Service Act

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    Japand allies with Germany and Italy- Tripartite Pact

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    Roosevelt is reelected to a third term

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    German begins bombing England/Battler of Britain

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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; U.S freezes Japan's American assets and cuts off trade

  • Japanese fleet begins moving toward Southeast Asia; US demands that Japan withdraw from Tripartite Pact

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    German raids on England ends

  • American military base, Pearl Harbor, is attacked by Japanese warplanes

  • United States declares war on Japan

  • Germany and Italy declare war on the United States