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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
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Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
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Josef Stalin becomes sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
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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 passed by US Congress
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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland, violating the Treaty of Versailles
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Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people
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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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Germany invades France and forces thems to surrender
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Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan
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Germany and Italy declare war on the US
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Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
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Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
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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 Minister
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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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V-E Day, war ends in Europe
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U.S drops first atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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U.S drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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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
