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End of WW1
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WW2
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Treaty of Versailles
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Hitler becmes leader of Nazi party
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germnay
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First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.
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Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.
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Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
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Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference.
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Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.
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Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.
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Nazis invade Poland
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Nazis invade Denmark and Norway
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
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Holland surrenders to the Nazis
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German attack on Tobruk is repulsed.
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree.
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Hitler declares war on the United States.
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Japanese-Americans sent to relocation centers.
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Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.
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First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp opened.
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Germans surrender in the Crimea.
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D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.
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U.S. troops liberate Cherbourg, France.
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Liberation of Paris.