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League of Nations founded
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Signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party.
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Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published.
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Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
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First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.
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German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws.
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Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia.
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The Japanese invade North China from Manchuria. 8 yrs of combat
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USS Panay, while on routine duty in Chinese waters, is attacked by Japanese aircraft.
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Nazis invade Poland.
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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto devises plan to destroy the U.S. Navy in Hawaii and demoralize American people
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7:50 am Hawaiian time, first wave of japanese aircraft begin the attack
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First all-American air attack in Europe.
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Waffen-SS attacks Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto.
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Soviet troops advance into Poland.
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Allies enter Rome
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D-Day
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First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain.
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Allies liberate Paris with the help of French resistance
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Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland.
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Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
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Battle of the Bulge begins
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battle of the Bulge ends
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U.S. forces cross the Rhine River
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Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans; Allies take Venice.
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Hitler marries Eva Braun, poisons her, shoots himself as Soviets are entering the city
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Eisenhower accepts unconditional surrender in Reims, France at same time Germans surrender to Soviet Union in Berlin
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V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.
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First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan
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Japanese agree to unconditional surrender.