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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 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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Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
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Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
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Militarist take control of Japanese Government
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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany
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japans army killed a quauter of a millon people
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Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland
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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
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Nazis invade
Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control -
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
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Battle of Britain
Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island -
First time Peacetime Draft in US
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Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades
USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
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Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval
US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US - Dec. 9 -
Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
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Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
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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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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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D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
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Paris retaken by Allies Forces
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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
