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Period: to
World War II-Pre to Post
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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party
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Bennito Mussiloni is appointed prime minister of Italy
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Josef Stalin becomes 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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The Nuetrality Act is passed by Congress
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Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
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Militarist take control of Japanese Government
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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
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Japans army pillages Nanjing, China: a massacre of a quarter of a million people
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Munich Pact signed, giving the Sudentenland of Czechslovakia to Germany
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Nazis begin rounding up jews for concentration 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.
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First Peacetime Draft was created in the US
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Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxemborg, and Belgium- taking control.
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Germany invades France, forcing it to surrender
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Battle of Britain- Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their country.
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Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR now joins England in fighting the Germans
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Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US
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Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
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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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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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Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
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Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
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Paris retaken by Allies Forces
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D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
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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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V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
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War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
