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  Japan invades Manchuria.
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  Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President of the United States
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  Japan withdraws from the League of Nations
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  Civil War ends in Spain
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  Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21.
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  The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.
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  Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
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  The United States tells Japan to get out of China and Indochina.