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Holocaust
Genocide in which Hitler killed a total of 6 million Jews and an estimated of 2 million other people (Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehova witnesses, etc..) -
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Spanish Civil War
Fought between Republicans who were loyal to the Democratic Spanish Republic and Nationalists led by Francisco Franco. Nationalists won and Franco ruled Spain for 36 years. -
Pact of Steel
Pact of friendship and alliance between Germany and Italy. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
officially the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,[a] was a non-aggression pact signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in Moscow. -
France and Britain
France and Britain declared war on Germany after it attacked Poland. -
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Battle of Atlantic
Canada declares war on Germany -
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Nazi euthanasia
Hitler ordered widespread "mercy killing"of the sick and disabled. Code named "Aktion T 4" Children included. -
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Italy declares war on France and Britain
after withholding formal allegiance to either side in the battle between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain. -
Germans enter Paris
As the Germans approached, the French premier Paul Reynaud roadcast an appeal for all free men to come to the aid of France. Britain also helps. -
Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich.
Germany and Italy become allies against Britain and France. -
Romania becomes and Axis power
Romania allied itself with Nazi Germany—only to be invaded by its “ally” as part of Hitler’s strategy to create one huge eastern front against the Soviet Union. -
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The Blitz
Strategic bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany. Sixteen British cities suffered. London was attacked 71 times. Thousands dead. -
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Battle of Greece
Axis invasion of Allied Greece by Nazi Germany in April 1941 during the Second World War. -
The Eastern front
The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland and other Allies. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastwar in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. The invasion covered a front from the North Capeto to the Black Sea. -
First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
The Nazis began experimenting with poison gas for the purpose of mass murder in late 1939 with the killing of mental patients ("euthanasia"). -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
It was a surprise strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded.
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Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars
Hitler orders all Jews in occupied Paris to wear an identifying yellow star on the left side of their coats. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jews-in-paris-are-forced-to-sew-a-yellow-star-on-their-coats -
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