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  He promised Italians that he would help improve their economic condition
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  Lenin, then in exile in Switzerland, appointed Joseph Stalin to serve on the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party.
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  The Maginot Line was a vast fortification that spread along the French/German border but became a military liability when the Germans attacked France
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  On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party or Nazi Party, as chancellor of Germany.
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  The Spanish Civil War begins as a revolt by right-wing Spanish military officers in Spanish Morocco and spreads to mainland Spain
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  Japan wanted to have China
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  The Government of the German Reich and The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics desirous of strengthening the cause of peace between Germany and the U.S.S.R
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  Hitler wanted to expaned Germany
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  the Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin
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  The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor