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The passage of the Enabling Act of 1933 is widely considered to mark the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the Third Reich. It empowered the cabinet to legislate without the approval of Reichstag or the President, and to enact laws that were contrary to the constitution. Before the March 1933 elections Hitler had persuaded Hindenburg to promulgate the Reichstag Fire Decree using Article 48, which empowered the government to restrict "the rights of habeas corpus [...] freedom of the
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Hitler rises to power in Germany, the Nazi party is dominate over all others, communism is pushed out of Germany.
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Facist Italy invades Ethiopia for the Axis.
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Italy conquers Ethiopia for the Axis.
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.
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Imperial Japan invades China starting WW2 in the Pacific.
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France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement and a secret codicil dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence.
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Germany invades Poland with the tactic 'Blitzkrieg' or, lightning war.
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Honoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.
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The Soviet Union undergoes a counterpush to remove German invaders from the streets of Moscow
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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Japan attacks pearl harbor, destroying many ships.
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After Pearl Harbor, America declared war on Japan and the Axis, this will be the start of Axis' decline.
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The Axis surrenders to the Allies' in Africa, ending the war on that front.
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U.S. and British troops land on Sicily. By mid-August, the Allies control Sicily.
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The Fascist Grand Council deposes Benito Mussolini, enabling Italian marshall Pietro Badoglio to form a new government.
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The Germans launch a final offensive in the west, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in an attempt to re-conquer Belgium and split the Allied forces along the German border. By January 1, 1945, the Germans are in retreat
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The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin.
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Germans surrender not long after Hitler kills himself.
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Hitler kills himself.
