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Treaty of Versailles (failed to provide a "just and secure peace" as promised.)
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Non Aggression Pact (between Germany and the Soviet Union.)
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Start of War (Germany invaded Poland.)
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Lend-Lease Act- Lend or lease arms and other supplies to "any country whose defense was vital to the United State."
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
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Atlantic Charter (Declaration of the United Nations) was signed by 26 nations.
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Manhattan Project (the code used to describe American efforts to build the atomic bomb.)
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D-Day - Normandy Invasion.
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Yalta Conference (a series of compromises were worked out concerning postwar Europe.)
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Truman becomes President (confronted enormous challenges in both foreign and domestic affairs.)
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Hitler's Death (he committed suicide by shooting himself.)
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V-E Day - Germans surrender.
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Formal surrender papers signed - Japan
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Nuremberg Trials (put 24 surviving Nazi leaders on trial for different crimes.)
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Korematsu v. USA (decision stated US could intern Japanese Americans.)
