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Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
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Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist Nazi Party
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Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published.
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Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany
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Roosevelt elected President
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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German Reichstag Burns
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Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power
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Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party
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Germany quites League of Nations
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Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss
Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss bled to death in his Vienna office, assassinated by Nazis in a (failed) attempt to overthrow the Austrian government. -
Hindenburg dies
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Hitler becomes Führer of Germany
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription
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Nuremburg Laws passes
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Germans occupy the Rhinelands
Here German troops cross the Rhine to recoccupy the Rhineland. -
German Military Mobilizes
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Kristallnacht
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Nazis take Czechoslovakia
Deep inside the former Czechoslovakia, residents of the city of Moravia watch as Hitler's troops roll in. -
Non-Aggression Pact
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Nazis invade Poland
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U.S. declares neutrality
President Roosevelt remained focused on the problems at home as he declared American neutrality. -
Soviets invade Poland
Image: Soviets parade in Lviv, 1939. -
Belgium surrenders to the Nazis
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France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany
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Battle of Britain begins
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German Blitz against Britain begins
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President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act
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Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg
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Operation Barbarossa begins.
Germans attack Soviet Union. -
Executive Order 8832
Image: Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations. -
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
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United States and Britain declare war on Japan
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Hitler declares war on the United States
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Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps
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Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations
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Battle of Stalingrad begins
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Allies take Tunisia
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Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland
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Casablanca conference
Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with "unconditional German surrender." -
Allies land in Sicily
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Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls
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Germans rescue Mussolini
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Tehran Conference
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran. -
D-Day landings on Normandy
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Yalta Conference
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FDR died
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Soviets reach Berlin
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Mussolini is captured and hung by Italian partisans
Mussolini and his mistress hung upside down in Milan, after being shot. -
Htiler commits suicide
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Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government
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Potsdam Conference
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U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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U.S. drops second atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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Japanese agree to unconditional surrender
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Nuremberg war crimes trials begin