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Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party
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Benito Mussolini appointer prime minister of Italy
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Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
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Japan's Army seizes Manchuria, China
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Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
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Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
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Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
Laws passed by Congress to stop the U.S. from going to war -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles treaty
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Japan's army pillages Nanjing, China;massacre almost a quarter of a million people
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Munich Pact signed giving Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
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Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
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Nazi-Soviet pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
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Nazis invade Poland;Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium - take control
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Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
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Battle of Britain- Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
Britain fends of German Air force with its superior air force to defend itself from an invasion -
First time Peacetime Draft in US
This was the first time that a country had a military draft while at peace -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
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Hitler breaks pact with Stalin's Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
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Japanese invade French Indochina (Vet. Laos Cambodia)
