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Benito Mussolini became the fascist leader of Italy
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Joseph Stalin became the dictator of the Soviet Union
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Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Nazi Party
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Japan's Army seized Manchuria, China
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Hitler was named the Chancellor of Germany
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Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
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Italian Army invaded Ethiopia, Africa
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Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland
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Militarist take control of Japanese Government
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Nazis began rounding up Jews for labor camps
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Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
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Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
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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 are invaded. -
France Fell
Germany invaded France and they surrender. -
Battle of Britain
Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion. -
First time Peacetime Draft in US
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Hitler broke Pact with Stalin’s Russia
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Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a privacy statement that was issued the allied goals of the war. -
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked
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Battle of Midway
It was called the turning point of the was in the Pacific. It was faught for 4 days straight. -
Japanese Americans were sent to isolated camps
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Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad to save Moscow
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Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
The Zoot Suit Riots happened between white sailors and marines because of rising tentions between the mexican americans and the white service men. -
13th Jul, 1943 Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed
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British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
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D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
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Paris retaken by Allied Forces
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Battle of the Bulge
Last offensive of German Forces. -
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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Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima
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Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki
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V-J Day, Japan surrendered to Allied Forces
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War Crimes Trials
Held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.