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Treaty of versailles
Peace treaty -
Axis to power in Germany
The three partners in the Axis alliance were Germany, Italy, and Japan. The three countries saw German and Italian control in continental Europe, as well as Japanese dominance over East Asia. All of Germany’s European Axis allies mostly participated in the persecution and murder of Jews during the Holocaust. -
Axis to power in Germany
The three partners in the Axis alliance were Germany, Italy, and Japan. The three countries saw German and Italian control in continental Europe, as well as Japanese dominance over East Asia. All of Germany’s European Axis allies mostly participated in the persecution and murder of Jews during the Holocaust. -
Hitler voted to power in Germany
Hitler required the vote of the Centre Party and Conservatives in the Reichstag to obtain the powers he desired. He called on Reichstag members to vote for the Enabling Act on 23 March 1933. Hitler was granted plenary powers "temporarily" by the passage of the Act. -
Tripartite pact
The Tripartite Pact was a number of agreements, between Germany, Japan, Italy, and other countries of governing their powers. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United St. The United States was a neutral country at the time; the attack led the U.S. to formally enter World War II on the side of the Allies the following day. -
nazi's establish gas chambers at auschwitz
escorted the men, women, and children selected for death to the gas chambers—initially to the gas chamber in crematorium I and “bunkers” 1 and 2, and, from the spring of 1943, to the gas chambers in crematoria. -
japanese americans sent to internment camps
Japanese people, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps -
atomic bombs dropped on japan
United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively.