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Period: to
World War II Era
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Hitler becomes Nazi leader
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Benito Mussolini: New Prime Minister of Italy.
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Josef Stalin: Dictator of Soviet Union (USSR)
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Japan seizes Manchuria, China
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Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
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Nuetrality Acts passed
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Italy invades Ethiopia, Africa.
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Militarists take control of Japanese Gov.
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Hitler sends troops to Rhineland
Violation of Treaty of Versailles -
Japan invades Nanjing, China.
massacre of a quarter of a million people. -
Munich Pact signed
Czechoslavakia got Sudetenland from Germany. -
Nazis begin collecting 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. -
Germany invade France
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Battle of Britain
Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force -
First Peacetime Draft
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Nazis invade.. (See description)
Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium -
Hitler breaks pact with Stalin's Russia
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Japanese invade French indochina
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Churchill and FDR issue in the Atlantic Charter
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Pearl Harbour, Hawaii attacked, and more (in description)
US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declared war on U.S -
Bataan Death March
Phillipines fall to japanese -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
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Battle of Midway
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Japanese americans intern at isolated camps
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British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
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Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
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Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
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D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
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Paris retaken by Allies Forces
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Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
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US forces return to recapture the Philippines
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FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
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V-E Day, war ends in Europe
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First Atomic Bombs dropped
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War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
