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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party
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World War II
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Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy
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Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union
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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 pased by US congress
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Italian army invades Ethiopia in Africa
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Militarist take control of the 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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Battle of Britain – 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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1941 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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Dec. 7 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US - Dec. 9
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Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
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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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Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
