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Mussolini rises to power.
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Isolationism becomes strong.
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The Japanese invaded Manchuria and created Manchukuo.
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FDR calls for largest peacetime naval construction due to Japanese military build-up.
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Hitler became chancellor of the German government and head of the Nazi Party.
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60,000 people fled from Germany, Austria, and Italy for U.S.
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Hitler had dictatorial powers over the "Third Reich”
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The U.S Army enlarged, including the Navy & the Air Force
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Italy attacked Italian Somalia and Ethiopia.
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Japan joined Germany & Italy’s pledge to resist Communism
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The Neutrality Act caused the cash & carry of nonmilitary goods bought from U.S. by nations at war were NOT to be transported under the American flag
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Japan declared war on China and the rape of Nanking
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American soldiers fought in the Spanish Civil War with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
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Germany annexed Austria.
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Hitler expelled Jews from Germany and Austria.
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Germany received Sudeten-land in exchange for no further territorial claims at the Munich Conference.
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60,000 fewer refugees allowed in than law allowed.
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Kristillnacht Which is the night of broken glass.
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Japan rejected the US’s Open Door in China.
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Uranium fission was discovered in Berlin
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Neutrality Act was updated and the budget established to explore atomic power.
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Germany grabs the rest of Czechoslovakia.
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The Nonaggression Pact was signed by Germany and the Soviet Union
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Einstein Wrote to FDR explaining nuclear fission
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Hitler invaded Poland.
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Britain declared war on Germany.
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The Soviets invaded eastern Poland and then later invaded Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Finland.
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Germany invaded Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. There was an air assault against Britain in the summer & fall.
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Happy time for Germany where the U.S and Great Britain could not form convoys
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Italy declares war on the Allies, and attacked France .
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There were Research partnerships between civilian & military science which caused the defense budget to explode.
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The U.S began an oil embargo against Japan.
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Japan created a pro-expansionist government and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
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Japan created the Tripartite Pactwhich is mutual assistance
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The U.S traded bases for naval destroyers with Great Britain, created the Selective Service Act, restricted iron & scrap metals from Japan Flying planes to China.
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The U.S created the Lend-Lease with Great Britain, sent U.S. troops to Greenland and air & naval patrols, which was classified as a “national emergency.”
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Plutonium was descovered and FDR wanted Scientist fo build a bomb
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Great Britain sank Germany's super battle ship the Bismark which caused the Germans to focus on the u-boat.
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The U.S used Aircraft, radar, convoys to destroy u-boats
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Germany's code was broken
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Japanese invaded French Indochina.
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The U.S sent troops to Iceland, froze Japanese assets and severely reduced Japanese oil shipments.
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Japan warned against more expansion.
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The Reuben James was sunk by a U-boat and the Soviets became eligible for lend-lease.
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General Tojo becomes Prime Minister
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The U.S. knew that Japan was planning an attack, but they did not know where which approved of arming of merchant ships
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The U.S declared war on Japan after Pearl Harbor was attacked
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Germany attacked the Soviet Union, The Battle of Stalingrad
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The Bataan Death march
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The Doolittle Raid improved America's morale, which worried Japan's leaders
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Battle of Coral Sea which was the first important Allied victory
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The Battle of Midway stopped Japan's naval attacks and placed Japan on defensive
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Guadalcanal was the 1st American offensive in the Pacific on the ground
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Allies to attack Nazis in N. Africa during Operation Torch
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Winston Chruchhill and Franklin Roosevelt had a meeting in Casablanca
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Stalin pressing for a 2nd front
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The F6F Hellcat airplane established American control over the Pacific
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Americans gain more experience and the end the war in N. Africa
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The U.S Encourage the Italians to doepose Mussolini
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Britain Bombs Hamburg, Germany killing 30,000
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The U.S bombs Europe with B17s with the help of the H2X
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Churchhill, Fdr, and Stalin met at Thran, Iran
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FDR created the WAr Refugee Board in response to reports of the Holocuast
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Nimitz captures Gilbert and Marshall islands and Guam
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Synthetic rubber created
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D-Day on Normany Beches
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MacArthur returns to Philippines
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Battle of the Bulge
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U.S P.O.W's are murdered by Germans in Malmedy, Belgium
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The U.S Carpet-bombs Cities
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U.S Marches troops into Germany with Russians coming from the East
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The U.S Fire-bombs Tokyo
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Italy remains a battleground because of the Germans
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There were High U.S caualties on Okinawa which affects U.S future plans
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Germany Surrenders
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The Japanese Attack American Airfields at Manila in Philippines
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The Enola Gay dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima
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The Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders
