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The Communist Party of China is founded.
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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party
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Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy
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In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to seize power
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KPD points out Rote Front Kampfer Bund against Nazi
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Hitler's resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
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Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining
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Benito Mussolini frees 16,000 criminals
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Franklin Roosevelt elected 32nd president for 1st time
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Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen
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Hitler promises parliamentary democracy
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Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
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Nazis invade Poland
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Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
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Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
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Germans bomb Paris
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France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany
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Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.
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Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.
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Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev.
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United States and Britain declare war on Japan.
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Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos
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Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Tehran.
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U.S. troops liberate Cherbourg, France.
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Liberation of Paris.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Japanese sign the surrender agreement, Japan won, ending war.
