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Signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party.
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Germany admitted to League of Nations.
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Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany.
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Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States.
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
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Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription.
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German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws.
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Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia.
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Nazis take Czechoslovakia.
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Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty.
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Adolf Hitler invades Poland
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Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
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Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France.
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Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
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Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.
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Hungary joins the Axis Powers.
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President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.
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United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.
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Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.
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First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
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Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with "unconditional German surrender."
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SS Leader Heydrich holds the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
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First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven).
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
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First all-American air attack in Europe.
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Operation Supercharge (Allies break Axis lines at El Alamein).
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German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa.
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Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk.
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Germans evacuate Sicily.
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Germans withdraw to the Adolf Hitler Line.
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British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany.
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D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.
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Slovak uprising begins.
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Warsaw Uprising ends as the Polish Home Army surrenders to the Germans.
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First U.S. atomic bomb test; Potsdam Conference begins.
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First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.
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Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Japanese sign the surrender agreement; V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.
