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The Great Depression Begins
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor
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Mussolini invades Ethiopia
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Japan defeats China
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Roosevelt limits ships to Asia
President Roosevalt forbids US ships from carrying arms into China or Japan -
Mussolini joins Hitler
During a speech in Rome, Mussolini agrees to fight the democracies along Hitlers side if war should break out. -
Hitler aims for Sudetenland
Hitler says he is going to invade and conquer the Sudetenland region of Czechoslavakia -
Hitler promises peace
Hitler, in return for the Sudetenland, promises to leave the rest of Czechoslavakia alone. -
Germany Invades Poland
This is when the official beginning of the war started. -
Britain and France declare war
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Germany invades Soviet Union
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Pearl Harbor.
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US at war
Germany and Italy declare war on United States. United States declares war on Germany, Italy, and Japan. -
D Day
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FDR dies.
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Mussolini dies.
Italian insurgents capture him, murder him, and mutilate his body. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders
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Victory in Europe
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Japan signs the surrender agreement
