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Formally ended ww1. The Treaty of Versailles led to World War II because its terms punished Germany harshly. -
Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power through Germany’s legal political processes. He required the vote of the Centre Party and Conservatives in the Reichstag to obtain the powers he desired. He was then granted the powers temporarily. -
"Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympic Games for propaganda purposes. The Nazis promoted an image of a new, strong, and united Germany while masking the regime’s targeting of Jews and Roma" (encyclopedia.org) -
War of Poland of, and Polish Defensive War, was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union; which marked the beginning of World War II -
"SS men 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 II, III, IV, and V." (auschwitz.org) -
Alliance of the Axis Powers- Germany, Italy, Japan
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"The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii" (Wikipedia) -
"Many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry would act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government" (USHistory.org) -
"The Imperial Japanese Navy would not be capable of overcoming the loss of four carriers and over 100 trained pilots, and with the loss at Midway, the Japanese offensive in the Pacific was overturned and the United States began offensive action in the Pacific." (nationalww2.org) -
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Italy surrenders after a shortage of fuel. -
The battle of the island Iwo Jima, eventual captured by the US. -
The ending of the war for Germany -
Japan had refused to surrender, therefore america dropped 2 Atomic Bombs in order for Japan to surrender. -
After bombs were dropped on Japan by the US the surrendered