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Japan Invades Manchuria
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Hitler comes to power
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Franklin D. Roosevelt for President
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Italy invades Ethiopia
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Germany Reoccupies the Rhineland
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Rome/Berlin Axis pack
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The Manhattan Project begins
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Hitler renounced the provision of The Treaty of Versailles
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Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact is signed
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Britain signs pact with poland
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European War; Hitler against Europe
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A. Philip Randolph organize walk on Washington against Discrimination
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Lend-Lease Act passed
This made it possible for America U.S. military to send aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials. Britain and France had to go to America or most of the way there to be able to get this aid("Cash and Carry"). -
America embargoes Japan
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Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
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America Joins WWII
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American Japanese citizens are put into Internment Camps
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The battle of Midway
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Rosie the Riveter supports women at home
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Allied conference in Tehran start
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Allied conference in Tehran ends
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D-day
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Allied conference in Yalta starts
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Allied conference in Yalta ends
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President FDR dies
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Harry Truman becomes President
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Battle of Berlin(V-E Day)
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Adolf Hitler dies
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Germany surrenders
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U.S. drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
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U.S. drops Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
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Japan Surrenders
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American Japanese Citizens leave Internment Camps
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The Manhattan Project is completed