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Period: to
World War II
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Hitler becomes leader of nazi party
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Mussolini appointed prime minister
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Stalin dictates USSR
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Japan seises Manchuria, China
gets kicked out of league of nations -
Hitler is named chancellor of Germany
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Neutrality Act passed by US congress
keeping US out of war -
italian army invades ethiopia
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Hitler sends troops into rhineland of Germany in violation of the Treaty of Versailles
Breakes treaty of Verssais -
Militarists take control of Japanese Government
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Japan's army pillages Nanjing China
massacre a quarter million people -
Munich pact signed
giving Sudetenland of Chechoslavakia to Germany -
Nazi-Soviet pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
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Nazis envade Poland: Britan and France declare war on Germany
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Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, Luxemburg, and Belgum
Take control of all -
Germany invades France
Forces it to surrender -
Battle of Brittain
RAF defeats Luftwaffe to prevent invasion of their island -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
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Hitler breaks Nazi-Soviet Pact and invades the Soviet
USSR joins England in fighting the Germans -
japanese invade French Indochina
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Bobing of Pearl Harbor
attackd by Japaneese naval and air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declar war on US -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
forced out of homes and could bring only what they could carry with them -
Bataan death march
Philippines fall ti Japanese -
Battle of Midway
turning point in the war in the Pacific -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad
Save Moscow -
British and US forces defeats German and Italian armies in North Africa
Battle for colonies in North Africa -
Italy Surrendurs
Moussilini dismissed as prime minister -
Zoot Suit Riots
Los Angelis California, sailors beat up Mexican Americans who are wearing Zoot Suits -
D-Day
Invasion of France at Normandy by Allies -
France taken by allied forces
after Normandy win -
Battle of the Bulge
Last offense by German forces -
Allies return to Philippines
Take them by process of island hopping -
FDR dies of stroke
Truman becomes president -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
150,000 deaths -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
75,000 dead -
V-J Day
Victory in Japan, Japan surrendurs -
War Crimes Trials
held in Neurenberg, Germany; Milana, Philippines; and Tokyio, Japan
