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The Treaty of Versailles set out the punishment for Germany after WW1. This angered Many Germans.
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Joseph Stalin established himself as the dictator of the Soviet Union and the communist party of the Soviet Union. A totalitarian leader.
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany and head of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, better known as the Nazi Party. The start of the Nazi empire.
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Hitler establishes himself as dictator assuming the title of "Fuhrer". Nazism shared many features of Fascism but also featured racism.
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Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy form the Rome-Berlin Axis treaty. Alliances/ treaties are what started WW1.
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The United States declares its neutrality. They wanted no part of the war.
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The United States Congress amend the Neutrality Acts to favor Britain and France. So much for neutrality.
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The USS Kearny was torpedoed by a German U-boat while on patrol off Greenland. The USS Kearny but did not sink, but eleven men were killed in the explosion.
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The U.S.S. Reuben James was the first United States warship to be sunk during World War II and resulted in the loss of 115 of 160 American crewmen. The incidents in the Atlantic moved America nearer to outright involvement in the European war.
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The Japanese bomb the US fleet at Pearl Harbor. This is what pushes the US into war.
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Britain and the United States declare war on Japan. America begins its fight in WW2
