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  -Rhineland was a demiltarized zone between Germany and France
 -Invasion goes against the Treaty of Versailles
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  -Spanish Civil War started
 -Francisco Franco was supported by Germany and Italy
 -Loyalits were supported by USSR
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  - FDR said it was the responsibility of democracies to stop the expansion of totalitarian regimes
 
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  -Hitler announces a union between Germany and Austria
 -Germany reunites with Austria
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  -Jewish businesses and synogogues were destroyed
 -100 Jews killed and 26,000 sent to concentration camps
 -Jews were blamed for the damage
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  -France and Britain surrender the Sudetenland to Germany as part of the policy of appeasement
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  -Germany invades and takes control of Czechoslovakia
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  -USSR and Germany promise not to attack each other
 -secret agreement to divide up Poland
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  -Germany invaded Poland using the Blitzkrieg method
 -Official start of WWII
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  -Germany attacked France's northern border and captures Paris
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  -Germany's air force attacks Great Britain but could not beat the Royal Air Force
 -Great Britain's victory saved them from a ground invasion and possibly being taken over
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  -Germany invaded the Soviet Union
 -Germany captured industrial centers and grain fields
 -They laid seige to Leningrad
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  -Roosevelt and Churchill met on a charter boat in the Atlantic Ocean to discuss war strategy
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  -Japan attacked the US Naval Base in Hawaii
 -brought America into WWII
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  -Germany and Italy declare war on the United States
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  -after the American surrender against Japan at Bataan
 -American and Filipino prisoners were forced to march to prisoner-of-war camps
 -more than 10,000 died
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  -Japan planned to attack New Guinea and one of the Solomon Islands
 -They were intercepted by the US and Great Britain
 -Japanese were greatly damaged
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  -Allied forces crippled Japan's navy
 -U.S.broke Japanese code and learned about plans for attacking the island
 -vital victory for the Allies
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  -Italians had switched sides and turned on Hitler
 -Germans stayed to fight
 -Allies invaded Italy
 -Italy seemed like a dead end because of the impenetrable German defense
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  -Soviet Union and Germany fought over the city of Stalingrad
 -Soviet forces surrounded the German army but Hitler forbid them from surrendering
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  -US troops landed on the banks of Normandy
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  -the fighting that started with D-Day led to the Germans surrendering in Paris
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  -the last three battles Japan's navy fought against MacArthur
 -America won all of them
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  -Supreme Court ruled it was okay to take such drastic measures during wartime
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  -FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met to discuss the postwar
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  -over 250,000 buildings were destroyed in Tokyo
 -around 83,000 peaple were killed
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  -German government surrenders unconditionally
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  -Victory in Europe Day
 -celebration of Germany's surrender
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  -Truman, Churchill, and Stalin meet after Germany's surrender
 -results in Germany being split up into four occupation zones
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  -first dropping of atomic bomb on Japan
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  -second dropping of atomic bomb on Japan
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