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Treaty of Versailles
Ends WW1; limits Germany's power, and makes them pay for WW1 -
Hitler Voted to power in Germany
Hitler came second in the election but staged an attack on the parliament building and lied to get into power. -
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Hitler's Olympics
The Berlin Olympics had been awarded to Germany before the Nazis came to power, but in August 1936 they provided a perfect opportunity for the Nazis to showcase Hitler's Third Reich to the 49 nations of the world competing for Olympic gold. -
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German Invasion of Poland
Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe. German forces broke through Polish defenses along the border and quickly advanced on Warsaw, the Polish capital. -
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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a major air campaign fought largely over southern England in the summer and autumn of 1940. -
Tripartite Pact
The Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. -
Pear Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor -
Japanese American sent to internment camp
Because of the attack of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, as commander-in-chief, issued Executive Order 9066 that resulted in the internment of Japanese Americans. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Nazi's establish gas chambers at Aushwitz
The Nazis killed millions of people in gas vans or in stationary gas chambers. The victims were people with disabilities and later Jews and other prisoners. The vast majority of those killed by gassing were Jews. -
Italian surrender
On September 8, 1943, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies. -
Iwo Jima
The Battle: U.S. Marines invaded Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, after months of naval and air bombardment. -
Germany's surrender
The German Instrument of Surrender was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining Nazi German armed forces to the Allies, and ended World War II in Europe -
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Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Japan's Surrender
The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, bringing the war's hostilities to a close.