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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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General Tojo assumes command in Manchuria
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Italy invades Ethiopia
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Japan seizes Nanking
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Germany takes control of Sudetenland
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Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia
Hitler got what he wanted from the Munich conference and six months later moved troops from the Sudetenland into eastern Czechoslovakia. -
Invasion of Poland, start of WWII
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Nazi conquest of Scandinavia & the Low Countries
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France surrenders to Nazi Germany
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Battle of Britain
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Lend-Lease Act begins
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Germany violates treaty, invades USSR
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Japan invades French Indochina
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Pearl Harbor