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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
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Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
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Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
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Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
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Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
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Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
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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 of a 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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War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
