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It started with only several people and by the end of WWII had several million members.
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In 1922 Benito Mussolini was put in power in the position of Prime Minister.
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Josef Stalin became a dictator through brutality and killing his opposers.
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In 1931 the Japanese army seized Manchuria China without permission from the Japanese government.
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In 1933 Hitler was put in power as Chancellor of Germany and after the leader of Germany died he became the sole leader of Germany.
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The United states passed the neutrality act to avoid going into WWII and anything related to the war.
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Under the leadership of Mussolini the Italian army invaded ethiopia.
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By 1936 all of Japan was under complete control of Japanese militarists.
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In 1936, defying the Treaty Of Versailles Hitler began to rebuild the German armed forces. Hitler also sent German troops into the Rhineland.
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This was the massacre of 250000 innocent Chinese people.
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This was the beginning of the Holocaust, which was Hitler's plan to exterminate all Jews.
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This gave the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
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The world was shocked to learn that Hitler and Stalin who were sworn enemies signed a nonaggression agreement.
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Under order from Hitler Nazi troops seized Poland. Also this was when Britain and France declared war on Germany.
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Under Order from Hitler Nazi troops marched in and took control of all These countries.
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A battle between the Royal Air Force and the German Air Force,where the Royal air force defeated the German air force.
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For 8 days the Germans attacked France and they surrendered, which Hitler happily accepted.
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The first time men were drafted into the military during a time of peace in the US.
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The Japanese invaded French Indochina to prevent the Republic of China from importing arms and fuel through the area.
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The Atlantic Charter was a joint Declaration stating the British and US war aims.
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After Hitler broke his pact with Russia, Stalin decided to take side with the British and fight against the Nazis
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After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor the US declared war on the Japanese, and Germany and Italy declared war on the US.
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The Russians were able to start pushing the Germans back at Stalingrad, saving Moscow from the Nazis.
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After months of fighting the american and Filipino armies surrendered to the Japanese which resulted in the Bataan Death March.
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The battle of Midway was a turning point in the war in the Pacific because many Japanese ships were sunk or damaged while few American ships were wrecked or sunk.
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To prevent spies from revealing information to the Japanese Government the Americans rounded up as as many Japanese as they could and put them in intern camps.
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The Zoot Suit Riots occurred when Several Naval men on a break attacked some Mexican men, and the fighting went on for several days.
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With the surrendering of Italy came the dismissal of Benito Mussolini as prime minister. He was later killed and hung from the roof of a gas station.
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The German and Italian armies were destroyed by the American and British soldiers during the North African Campaign.
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The US, the British, and the Canadians stormed the beaches of Normandy to take back France from the Nazis.
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In August of 1944 the Allies were able to push the Germans out of Paris and take it back.
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The Battle Of The Bulge was the last offensive battle of the Germans in WWII.
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In January of 1945 the US forces returned to the Philippines to recapture the islands from the Japanese.
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After FDR died Harry S. Truman becomes president of the United states.
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May 8th 1945 (V-E day) the Nazis surrender and the war ends in Europe.
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The Atomic bombs were dropped on Japan to get them to surrender, because they had held out longer than the Nazis and refused to give up.
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On August 14th Japan surrendered to the Allied forces this later became known as V-J day.
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In 1946 War Crime trials began in Nuremberg Germany, Manilla Philippines, and Tokyo Japan.
