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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party
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Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
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Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union
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Japan's Army seizes Manchuria, China
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Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
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Neutrality Act passes by US Congress
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Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
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Militarist take control of Japanese Government
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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
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Japan's Army pillages Nanjing, China; Massacre a Quarter million people
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Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
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Nazis begin rounding up jews for labor camps
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Nazi-Soviet pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
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Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Naziz invade denmark, Norway, The netherlands, luxembourg and belgium - Take Control
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Germany invades france and forces it to surrender
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Battle of Britain - Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their land
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First time Peacetime draft in US
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Hitler breaks pact with Stalin's Russia and invades - USSR now joins England in fighting the germans
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Curchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
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Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air Forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and italy declare was on the US
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Philippines fall to Japanese - Bataan Death March
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Japanese Americansinterned in isolated camps
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Battle if Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
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Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
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British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
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Zoot Suit Riots - Los Angeles, CA
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Italy Surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Minister.
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D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
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Paris retaken by Allies Forces
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Battle of the bulge - last offensive of German Forces
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US Forces return to recapture the Philippines
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FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
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V-E Day, war ends in Erope
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First Atomic Bombs dropped
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V-J Day, Japan surrenders to allied Forces
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War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan
