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Elections brought a huge win for the Fascists, with Mussolini taking a seat as a deputy in parliament.
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Japan turned to Manchuria for oil rubber and lumber in order to make up for the lack of resources in Japan.
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Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party.
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Laws passed to limit US involvement in future wars.
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The Munich Agreement gave Sudetenland to Germany.
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Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and business and killed close to 100 jews.
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Germany and Soviet Union agreed to take military action against each other for the next ten years.
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Germany invaded Poland to regain lost territory and ultimately rule their neighbor to the east.
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The Battle of Atlantic was the struggle between the Allied and German forces or control of the Atlantic Ocean. https://youtu.be/8tgeKKQNVvk
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Its failure was a result of a hopelessly divided French political elite, a lack of quality military leadership, rudimentary French military tactics.
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The Men They Left Behind, by Sean Longden, some where summarily executed.
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President Roosevelt won the election in 1940.
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The major Axis Powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan. The alliance began to form in 1936. First, on October 15, 1936 Germany and Italy signed a friendship treaty that formed the Rome-German Axis. It was after this treaty that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini used the term Axis to refer to their alliance.
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Through the Lend-Lease, the United States also succeeded in becoming the "arsenal of democracy" during the WW2.
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It was led by the US with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.
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The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii. Over 1,000 people were killed in this attack. https://youtu.be/DNV8enpVwok
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Representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up the United Nations Charter.
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The first internment camp in operation was Manzanar, located in southern California.
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The march happened Americans forces surrendered the Philippines to the Japanese.
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The Battle of the Midway became one of the most important American naval victories of World War2.
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The Allies used over 5,000 ships and landing craft to land more than 150,000 troops on five beaches in Normandy.
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In several battles the Japanese were able to defeat American and Filipino forces and quickly occupy the Philippines.
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Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey to win an unprecedented fourth term. https://youtu.be/X1Cn7jdhHI4
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The Allies won the Battle of the Bulge.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin; the "Big Three" Allied leaders met at Yalta to discuss how to organize the postwar world.
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The Allies celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Reich.
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Atomic bombs used against humans killed tons of thousands of people, obliterating the cities, and contributing to the end of WW2.
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Japan surrendered because the Soviet Union entered the war.
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Women working outside of domestic life were accepted, encouraged, and looked upon as patriotic during a short period in time.
