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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party.
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Mussolini appointed prime minister of Italy.
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Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Unity
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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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Militarist take control of Japanese Government
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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Verslles Treaty
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Japan's army pillages Nanjing, Chine; massacre a quarter million people
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Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
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Nazis begin to round 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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Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium-take control
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Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
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Battle of Britain - Royal Airforce defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
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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
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Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
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Japanese invaded France Indochina 9Viet. aos, Cambodia0
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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 on Dec 9th
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Phillipines 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 the war in the Pacific
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Russian stop Nazi advance atStalingrad save Moscow
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British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
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Zoot Suits Riots - Los Angeles, CA
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Italy surrrenders, Mussolini dismissed at 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 capture the Philipines
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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 Bomb drops
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V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied forces
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War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, German, Manila, Philipines and Tokyo, Japan
