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Japanese succesfully invade Manchuria
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Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany by Presudebt von Hindenburg
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FDR begins his presidency of the US
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President von Hindenberg dies and Hitler declares himself the leader of Germany
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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact is signed
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US passes the Neutrality Acts
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Italy invades Ethiopia
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Nazi party institutes the Nuremberg Laws
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Germany invades the Rhineland area
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Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at the olympics in Berlin
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Germans attack the soviet union at Stalingrad
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germany invades austria
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FDR gets permission from Congrence to expand the Nazy
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Kristallnaght occurs
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The Sudentenland area is ceded to Germany through the Munich Pact
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Germany invades Poland
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Battle of the Atlantic occurs
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Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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Germany invades Belguim
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Germany forces trap the French and British troops and force them to retreat to dunkirk
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Hitler takes over france and divides it into zones
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Hitler begins bombing Britain nightly
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Tripartite Pact is signed and the Axis Powers are formed
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FDR signs the Lend-Lease act
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FDR creates the OFfice of Scientidic Research & Development to have scientists develop new weapons
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FDR and Winston Churchill negotiate the Atlantic Charter
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Tojo takes control of japan and forces the Japanese gov't to resign
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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FDR issues Executive Order 9066 establishing the internment of Japanese-Americans
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US surrenders Bataan in the Phillipines and Bataan Death March takes place
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Tokyo is bombed in the Doolittle raid
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Battle of the Coral Sea takes place
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Allies defeat Japan in the Battle of the Midway
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Allied troops storm Guadalcanal
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Axis troops surrender in USSR
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The last troops of the Afrika Korps surrender to the Allies
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Allies invade the island of Sicily
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D-Day takes place
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Macarthur fulfills his promise and returns to the Philippines
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Battle of the Bulge occurs
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Russian troops discover Auschwitz
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Yalta conference takes place
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American forces capture Iwo Jima
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Allied troops invade Okinawa
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FDR Dies
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Hitler Commits Suicide
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VE Day
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Potsdamn Conference takes place
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US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders
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Allied troops land in North Africa