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Adolf Hitler Becomes Leader of the Nazi Party.
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Benito Mussolini was appointed Prime Minister of Italy.
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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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Neutrality Acts passed 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 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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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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Nazis 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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Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
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First time Peacetime Draft in US
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Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
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Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
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Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
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1941, Dec. 7 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces
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US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US
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Philippines fall to Japanese
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Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
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June 4-7 Battle of 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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1943 Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
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1943 July - Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
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1944 June 6 - D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
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1944 Aug. - Paris retaken by Allies Forces
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1944 Dec. Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
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1945 Jan. – US forces return to recapture the Philippines
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1945 April 16th - FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
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1945 May 8th - V-E Day, war ends in Europe
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1945 Aug. - First Atomic Bombs dropped
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1945 Aug. 14th – V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
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1946 War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
